Spam, phishing, scams, malware, personal data mining, identity theft, etc. Is this the "smarter planet" of which you speak? Makes me want to drop off the grid permanently.

There are some jobs I just won't do. For example: I would do just about any of Mike Rowe's "Dirty Jobs" than work helpdesk - except maybe coalminer. I worked...

Yes, thank you Grant for the though-provoking article. I understand why people want to help - it's human nature. However, one might argue that it's also human nature to be...

jorge_gomes98 (5/14/2010)

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Ugh!.......James Stover....

...............how can you say that?

I agree that we must work and earn money. Yes, I agree. Its life.

But one of the first rules to be an exceptional employee...

I stopped being helpful online about 5 years ago. I'm not interested in helping some stranger in the far reaches of <insert developing nation here> to take my hard-earned knowledge...

I use an "Error" schema in my data mart. I re-direct error rows from the SSIS data flow to an identical table in the error schema. This makes sense to...

Hugo Kornelis (4/29/2010)

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I don't know much about US...

chrisn-585491 (4/28/2010)

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Releasing CU's and SP's must be incredibly expensive and laborious for MS. And yet, they are freely available to anyone - even those who DON'T own the product. And...

Releasing CU's and SP's must be incredibly expensive and laborious for MS. And yet, they are freely available to anyone - even those who DON'T own the product. And yet,...

I agree 100% - I love this. The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth!!

Hmmm, good question. I'm pretty much at Level 1 on Maslow's pyramid. I'd be happy with being treated like a valuable contributor rather than a cost center ready to be...

GSquared (4/14/2010)

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kevin77 (4/13/2010)

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GSquared's comment is a good one, but I'm still waiting for Microsoft or someone else to write a plug-in that warns you if you try to execute a...

I have to disagree to a point. I like a bit of fluff when I go to these things. While I enjoy watching the gurus at work, I can get...

I'm a fan of log shipping. It's a hardened bit of technology that works very well.

Having said that, isn't it time to improve on the file-based transaction log? Maybe something...

On the last page:

"Normally it might have taken weeks for the researcher to find out about that report, if he found out about it at all," Asher says. "We're not...