In high school, my dad's side of the family had a restaurant and bar in Whitehall, Michigan. The Galleon was a high-end (well, for the local price range, anyway) seafood and steak restaurant on the shores of White Lake, and we catered to the tourists and well-off locals with a taste for the finer things. ...
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Last week I posted a picture on Twitter of the two books I'm reviewing right now: Tom LaRock's DBA Survivor and Bert Scalzo's Introduction to Oracle. They're both 100-level books. People didn't seem to question the former (perhaps because Tom's a friend of mine) but I got a lot of comments about the ...
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Paul Randal (Blog - @PaulRandal) tagged me in a post about the three events that brought him here. I had to think about this one for a while, and I even talked it over with Erika.
Discovering BBSes
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David Allen's productivity book, Getting Things Done, has made me a better person.
After using its methods for years, I'm even more convinced it can help anybody in IT. Today, I'm going to explain how I worked before GTD, ...
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In the 1980s, Nancy Reagan attempted to solve our nation's drug problem by encouraging kids to "Just Say No" if they were offered drugs.
According to my research performed ...
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