Mark Rittman mentions a couple of the meetings that I will be attending in the next few weeks; the first is  UKOUG BI & Performance Management event in Central London which is just a stone’s throw from an old office of mine, so at lunchtime I will be throwing stones at my old office. No, in fact I will be with all of my colleagues on the new Rittman Mead exhibition stand, so if you are at the event – (and there are still a few places left) why not drop by and say hello. Mark says I will be talking about data warehousing, but I am happy to talk about any BI topic, just as all of my colleagues can talk about DW. This event will also be an opportunity to meet up with my new colleague Borkur Steingrimsson – we spent a couple of weeks working together on a project in Iceland earlier in the year, but I suspect that it was too cold and dark for him so he went back to Belgium.

The other event Mark mentions is Collaborate 08 in Denver. This is going to be my first conference presentation in the USA, which fills me with a mixture of emotions (including fear!) – I am on first thing on the last morning. Truth be known I am looking forward to presenting, but even more so the chance to meet up with some new people, perhaps even readers of this blog – I know the majority of my readership (according to Statcounter) come from US based domains. So if you see me there come up and say “hi”.

Which brings me back to subject of the blog. I am seriously thinking of moving the technical content over to the company web site, maybe keeping the non-BI stuff and the truly random bits here, so in effect running this a personal blog. Looking at referrer stats on WordPress, most referrals come from blog rolls, feed readers and aggregators. But there also a few articles that very frequently get referred to; in number one spot is Doug Burns who linked to my small series on deadlocks, followed by Tom Kyte on test cases then Nicholas Goodman who linked to my series on data warehouse design and data modelling. So perhaps leaving the content here but putting a copy up on the company site is the best option