Monthly Archives: July 2010

It’s the Journey

I saw this on the 37 Signals blog as “I’ve already got the prize" and found it to be both true, and a little annoying. It refers to the Nobel Peace Prize, who Richard Feynman is apparently in consideration for. … Continue reading

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The Wiffle-Waffle, or Why I’m Running for the PASS Board of Directors

I’ll announce it here first, along with some reasons why I’m waffling from an earlier post: I’m going to run for the PASS Board of Directors in 2010. I am finalizing my application and getting reference letters before I send … Continue reading

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SubQuery Performance

Why would you do this? select distinct(hostname),(select count(*) as criticalCnt from @temp where severity_guid=’0168A833-1732-411E-8205-C2F6CD91737D’ and hostname=t.hostname group by hostname),(select count(*) as criticalCnt from @temp where severity_guid=’CB2F2B90-2DA4-4075-BCAA-DD5D2CEFBFD5′ and hostname=t.hostname group by hostname),(select count(*) as criticalCnt from @temp where severity_guid=’C4CF8A23-A106-4617-BAB0-94DA3CA74EF1′ and hostname=t.hostname … Continue reading

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Scanning Without Wires – Epson Workforce 610

We are trying to buy another property here at the ranch. My wife had to leave town in the middle of this, and asked me if I could sign the contract and then scan it in to email to the … Continue reading

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