GeniePad. A magical being that will be taking care of certain things. That is your second hint on what / who GeniePad is. He is growing up slowly but surely, peaking his head out of his magic lamp every time he gets, but it will still take some time before he can do his magic... For that my friends, you will have to stay tuned a little bit longer. For the time being, here's a teaser www.geniepad.com.

GeniePad, what is this thing you are talking about? A few people have asked this question in the past few days. All I can say for the time being is that it will be something to help certain people in their daily lives. The people that know what GeniePad is seemed pretty excited about it. Groups of people want it, like yesterday, but tomorrow will be nice too. Well, GeniePad has to be grown from the ground up in his magical lamp.  It is something that will help certain individuals and groups collaborate, share, and maintain various information.

Today a good friend of mine, Colin Stasiuk from Benchmark IT Consulting, had his third SQL Server Edmonton Pass meeting. It is a free seminar hosted once a month currently held at the Edmonton Public Library.

This month's topic was titled; Hit The Ground Running with SQL Server 2008. It was about new features in SQL Server 2008 in regards to database administration. It covered topics such as the Central Management Server, Policy-Based Management, Group Query Execute and Resource Governor.