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I have a VB 6 program that since moving it to another server serves up an ADODC error unless the original DB is keep unrestricted. Now the data correctly going to the new database on the new server but there is some configuration setting in the original I just can’t find. Or there is some code in the program that points to the old DB that I just can’t fine. Frustrating.

I had the best intentions going into this weekend of organizing and getting a least 3 ideas that I could turn into post going. However, a headache that I had on and off, mostly on, since late Friday, prevented me from doing anything non-essential this weekend. As a result, I once again have nothing to write about this morning. But I think i am closer.

I did have a great unexpected conversation with a friend on Saturday that I had not talk with at any length in a while. That as nice as was all the time I spend with friends this weekend.

Next weekend I will be at an event that may generate some material that I can use. I am taking Thursday and Friday off work to do my normal weekend stuff. I hope to organize me writing material then and be ready to hit the ground by next Monday at the latest. Wish me luck!

I did some more reading yesterday about organizing my thoughts and ideas, focusing them, and framing and developing an angle. It did not help yet. Still can’t get an entry out quickly.

I am wondering if Toastmaster would help with that. I am likely to get them out when I have some Saturday available again. This is before the end of the year.

I have been writing in a private online space consistently for a couple of months. It has gone well. Why is it such a problem to write with the knowledge that this will publicly available. It is not that I have tons have fans, yet, that are going to even see this entry. So taking Dorothea Brande’s advice I am going to write and publish entries on my inability to write and publish entries.

I do understand what a hardship this will be for me nonexistent readers but I am sure their spirits will understand.

She suggests in her book, Becoming a Writer, that this curse is defeated by writing. That is, it is not defeated by reading about it, thinking about it, or planning what to do about it.

We’ll see.

Andy Warren recently wrote about the value of blogging on SQLServerCentral.com. His remarks hit the mark so I am noting them here to remind me that I am trying to write more often because I want to be better and faster at writing and organizing my thoughts.

“I define blogging as taking an idea – a single sentence – and explaining it. You can fuss over which ideas you write about, but the act of blogging is really the art of writing, of communicating. There is real value in learning that, trying to get really good and really comfortable at it, because if you want to be successful, you have to learn to share your ideas well. Not just the ‘let’s do it’, but why and how and when. Explain it in two sentences and it gets ignored, explain in ten pages and it gets ignored. It takes practice, and most of us get relatively little practice – unless we blog, or find another way to force ourselves to write more often.

Writing makes you think, assuming you choose to write about more than where you’re going for lunch. I’ll tell you that I’d blog even if no one read my posts, it’s become the way that I shape and organize my thoughts and document lessons I’ve learned the hard way. Along the way I’ve gotten better (or at least faster) at organizing thoughts and trying to say something interesting in three or four hundred words. That’s turned out to be more useful than I ever expected, and any brand building is just a nice extra that comes with it.”