My cup looks like Heisenberg

I was looking at my plain cup, it looked very familiar, ah, i picked up a pen, Heisenberg is back!
#Heisenbergonmycup

Dear Paul,

Lynx Bottle Stinks

I had a great Eco idea, so I found a cool Mind Map style app in the Google Store called mural.ly, and used it to create my idea. I sent it to the Lynx marketing department, i'm still waiting a response back :-(

How much Memory does a SQL Instance need ?

This is a question that haunts us from time to time in our farmed SQL environments, it is often overlooked at the design phase, and a 'finger in the air' approach is used to arrive at an affordable figure. My standard answer to the question is  "How fast do you want your Instance to be ?". There are vast amounts of information on the web on this topic but none offer a simple way to get an answer.

I stumbled across this little gem of information on technet last week, it is a way to find a starting point for the Max Memory Setting for your Instance :

 ([Stolen pages] + [Reserved pages])/ 100

Line 20 of the following article : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178067(v=sql.105).aspx

Big Snow

I was about 5 years old when we last had so much snow, I vaguely recall throwing my Dad's hammer into the snow for some reason, and his angry response as he realized it was lost in 3 foot of drifting snow.

This picture was taken on a walk around the village about 3 weeks ago, the snow plough has cleared the road but created mountains of snow on the pavements. I asked our elderly neighbour if I could get her any essential supplies, she asked for Lamb Chops and Chip Shop style frozen breaded Cod ! she's obviously never been to our local Spar. Interestingly the entire village had the same idea and descended to the Local Store to buy Bread and Milk; queues out of the door and of course no milk or bread in sight !

Loweswater Gold

5/5

The best golden Real Ale since 'Dirty Tackle'. 

Served in the awesome 'Dog and Gun' in Keswick.

Slightly fruity taste, light colored like Lager. very tasty.

We walked from the town centre, around the lake to Cat Bells, High Spy, then down into Rosthwaite, bus back into Keswick, and straight to the 'Dog and Gun', Perfect refreshment after a day on the fells !

Dirty Tackle

5/5

Possibly the best Real Ale i've ever tasted. Brewed by Wychwood. Golden, slight citrus taste, not too bitter, ultimate refreshment.
One of six guest ales served at my local 'The Crown and Liver', Ewloe.
Trying 'Sunbeam' next week if there's any left !