Jozef Nagy.com

Had a great time at SQL Saturday #203 recently at Microsoft's Cambridge office. If you're a SQL Server pro, BI, analyst, or developer then check out NESQL's monthly meetings at the same location.

Earlier this year I began a startup venture dedicated to helping people listen to their favorite websites and blogs. At Odovox.com, we partner with established and quality content creators to produce podcasts from their blog posts. This helps bloggers reach a new audience in a new medium at no risk and no cost.

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The current business model and business practices of social media has never been my cup of tea. When given the choice between advertiser supported or paid, I prefer paid services. With ad supported social media networks, the users are the products. App.net has always intrigued me with their model and their core values.

I'm giving it a shot, my account is: https://alpha.app.net/joenagy

In response to my blog post about being a creator and not a consumer, let me write about my results of using Amazon Turk for the first time.

The original batch was for an HIT of 100 assignments at $0.15/each. After 24 hours, there were no takers. So I reduced the HIT assignments to 20 @ $0.30/each. Within 2 days they were all completed. I approved them all without reviewing them, downloaded the CSV, and uploaded it to Google Docs as a spreadsheet.

It always feels good to be a job creator! I've been having issues with one of my offshore employees for the past couple of weeks. She was given a simple, repetitive task to find certain websites for me. Because of some understandable delays on her end, and the impending deadlines of my own, Amazon Turk is a great replacement.

After a lot of preparation, I've finally upgraded this site from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. The DEV upgrade worked out well enough that tonight I upgraded PROD.

Here are the main Drupal guides to use: