Introduction: The World Series (1979) and Photography Willie ''Pops'' Stargell started my interest in photography (...a funny way to start a post on a SQL Server blog site, but bear with me). Pops Stargell led the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates to win the World Series. He was the MVP that year as well. My Mom, in the only time I ever remember her ...

The tune to a Bush song is running through my head as I type this... the band, not the president - although imagining the President singing the song is an interesting brain-stretch. It's a fact of IT life that everything scales. Some successfully, even. Problems start when things do not scale successfully (or well). It happens in business. It ...