Interesting timing... Our Enterprise Systems team, in conjunction with one of our (DB2) dba's is testing our JDE DR environment this weekend. Happens twice a year - flush through all...

The fellow would have achieved more of a splash had he read the paper from Latanya Sweeney: k-Anonymity: A Model for Protecting Privacy.

Now that is a scary read about the...

We have an application with about 15 years of data still sitting there. Spring cleaning has not been undertaken, with the justification that disk is cheap but orderly cleanout is...

Our JDE changes occur mid-month on Thursday evenings. Why? That is the window Finance gave us.

Most interesting window I have ever seen was where the app ran on a server...

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Started out feeling sympathetic, then read that you achieved your agony doing Karate. No more sympathy here...!

My 2 cents worth - agree, yoga/pilates are marvellous preventatives, but sometimes not...

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Scott adams got it right, I have to say... I think this epitomises Blandry's sentiments...

This on bailouts: http://www.dilbert.com/2009-02-25/%5B/url%5D

...and note that both the days before...

Dear oh dear... how is anyone on this site ever going to trust your judgement again? And I thought...

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I'm down under, Sydney area, so I have little need to insulate against the cold, but insulation against heat is another matter. This summer has been quite...

A walk-in fridge for the beer? You gotta be kidding. One thing's for sure, Luke L sure as hell ain't a pommmie!

Steve, great editorial today. My question...

I saw a signature on a forum (apologies to the person involved, I cannot remember where or when) but it could serve as a particularly cute candidate shibboleth for this...