May 25th, 2007: Save the World, my new song-let is checked into soundcheck!
Feb 18th, 2007: I am officially a dad; Lara Biyikoglu is here! She will soon be singing on the new tunes!
Jan 21st, 2007: First recording of the year. Boza is my favorite winter drink brewed out of cracked wheat. If you like bizzare 'boza' is it! Enjoy.
Dec 29th, 2006: A while back I started looking at the live spaces and integration with the messenger and I love it. I don't need to pester folks with new songs. My personal blog will be on http://istanbul-seattle.spaces.live.com from now on. I'll keep my technical blog on msdn at http://blogs.msdn.com/cbiyikoglu
Nov 30th, 2006; "Wombastic" is uploaded under soundcheck. I am also carrying the site to its new location: istanbul-seattle.com. TSQLNet will be forwarding to the new site for 3 more months but please update your bookmarks.
Aug 30th, 2006: "Requiem" is complete and is under soundcheck.
Jun 6th, 2006: Batu and I finished 2 new songs. "Kebab" (at Denetko) and "Sifir-Alti" (Sub-Zero).
Mar 23rd, 2006: Added "Seni Kendime Sakladim" under [soundcheck].
Dec 11th, 2005: "Sifir-Besh" added under [soundcheck]. This one is totally home grown.
Nov 10th, 2005: New song "Yonca" added under [soundcheck]. Feedback welcome.
Sept 9th, 2005: Yakup Trana and Ruchan Uner's album makes its debut. I drummed on 2 tracks.
Sept 3rd, 2005: One song, three versions: yagmur - rain uploaded under soundcheck.
Apr 25th, 2005: Yet another song: For your listening pleasure, look under soundcheck: Mayin Tarlasi...
Mar 26th, 2005: Finished recording one more cover. I painfully discovered that soloing on guitar is not my thing yet. The new stuff is under Soundcheck (Baglar). Also ripped another album from Liquid Soul - under Jukebox.
Feb 27th, 2005: New song added under soundcheck: Baglar...
Jan 5th, 2005: Sorry have to close out the jukebox to the world; I used forms auth on the jukebox site. Amazingly simple to do. If you want to just browse the jukebox, login as guest.
Jan 1st, 2005: Back blog-ing again. Exclusively on blogs.msdn.com.
Nov 30th, 2004: Site renewed. I am rebuilding on Yukon IDW11 and Whidbey Beta 2 prebuilds. Moving the site back to my gigantic datacenter at home.
Apr 8th, 2004: Up and running again. Move was smooth. Worked on a FTS project for myself...
Feb 4th, 2004: Time to do something new... I am leaving the Microsoft Services Org behind and moving to Seattle to development. I'll be back in a few weeks.
Nov 4th, 2003: Back from PDC! Yukon, Longhorn and Indigo is now out.
June 20th, 2003 : I spent a few weeks reviewing Dejan's book. It is a great resource for developers and DBAs. Check it out at BN.Com.
Cihangir Biyikoglu