My greatest triumph this week was my post "Cassandra: Predicting the Future of NoSQL." It took me a long time to write, in part because it took me a long time to grok WTF is NoSQL. And so I'm pretty proud I was able to pull together a blog post that (I think) was technically accurate. But it was also a literary thing of beauty (in my mind, ok?) as I invoked Greek mythology and I got away with a header saying "MySQL RDBS BBQ" (although the latter suggests that very few people actually read the post as no one said "WTF BBQ" in response.)

Ah well.

As for the stories I didn't tell this week, there are a number of them. I was on the road (at OSCON) and I met a lot of really smart folks. I heard several utterances of "...but don't write that." So that's my excuse for not having done so.

But I would be remiss if I didn't mention the passing of Daniel Schorr this week. I've long admired him for being part of the journalistic tradition that challenges those in power. "He found a great way of irritating government officials," said colleague Bob Schieffer, "because he always came up with the truth."

I don't believe speaking truth to power is solely the purview of journalists, just as fighting evil doesn't necessitate a superhero costume (which is, in retrospect, sort of a shame).

But Schorr taught me that even though you find your name on the enemies list, you keep reading, keep writing, keep talking, knowing that you're probably doing something right.