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Did you miss MMS this year? Well here is you change to see the highlight! (aka Put your head in the cloud)   When: Friday, May 6 Where: Microsoft Canada Headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario Registration Details: http://www.microsoft.com/canada/events/event_details.aspx?event_id=1032484234

The link to the PPT doesn’t work. so here is the direct link the the zip file. http://www.smsug.ca/blogs/files/20/969/techdays2010.zip

I have decided that the forums on www.SMSUG.ca are not being used and due to some SPAMMER populating the membership list, I have closed them down. This is a good thing as it means I will arrange for the site to be convert to a blog only site. With the new site will come a new look a feel. (wait for it)   If you are looking ...

So last night I was at the OttawaSQL.Net UG meeting, Colin Melia did a 400 Level (really it was a 500+, truly a deep dive!) about using SRS to collect data from different data source. Anyways, Colin used Ashton Kutcher twitter account http://twitter.com/APlusK as a data source and displayed a chart of times when he post and the average # of words ...

CTE Solutions, (Yes, the same training center that helps out with both the User & Study Groups) will donate $300,000 worth of training to recently laid off tech workers in Ottawa, equating to around 150 participants to be instructed over the coming summer months. CTE Solutions was founded seven years ago during the depths of the last tech ...

With the start of a new year, it is that time again to support the System Management Community, with that in mind I have made my yearly donation to MyITForum (MIF). Why do I do it? Well as a User Group leader for www.OWSUG.ca, I know how much it cost to host a small user group community. OWSUG is extremely small compared to MIF! Our network ...

Make sure that you stop by the OWSUG Job forums. There have been 10 new posting within the last month with more that half of them for Microsoft!

Just after posting the blog stats, I remember that I also want to check out that number of ping backs and comments.  Since April 1 2007 there have been 181 ping backs and 22 comments select count(*) as '# of Comments' from cs_Posts cs_Posts, cs_Sections SEC where cs_Posts.SectionID = Sec.SectionID and Groupid = 3 and ...

Recently I was asked about stats for my blog, so instead of guessing what the stats are I created a SQL query to figure it out.  So with out further ado here are the stats from April 1 2007 until this just before this post. Number of ...

   Ellen and I would like wish you all the best in the New Year.