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It goes without saying the DavidM blogs like a guy with an attitude waaay overdue for a consulting job: 7 Downsides to IT..... However, I think that he intended the post to be taken largely as humor. I like to joke that consulting has all the upsides...

It's as good a time as any to push out one of my backlogged SSIS posts. It wasn't any fun jousting with 0xC0047041 (SQLIS) last year, but a little more caffeine put me over the top that night. Heh. You can only stare at the SQL Server 2005 Management...

Somebody asked me for help on mirroring questions earlier this week; this is just another note-to-self moment because I don't want spend so much time looking them up the next time somebody asks for connection string properties and such. Database Mirroring...

The big legal news (in the US) this week is the Scooter Libby trav-, er, trial, but possibly of more interest to Israeli hunter-killer robots and/or artificial intelligences that may or may not exist on the internet is: AI Cited for Unlicensed Practice...

Oh, dear. I think the privacy advocates are going to have a hard time with this one. I don't know what to say. I have a lot of stuff that I want to say, but I think I'll go see what Schneier has to say instead. 'Embarrassed' Gun Suspect Sues Microsoft...

For all those people who wanted it from amore authoritative source, here it is: SQL Server Performance : Analysis Services 2005 Performance Guide

In theory, I support the idea of public review of patent applications, but I can also imagine that this could get very, very ugly in a big hurry. Open Call From the Patent Office (washingtonpost.com) Should be fun to watch either way!

I'm not knocking surveys generally or CompTIA specifically, but I do question the methodology of asking the people involved what they think went "wrong" with projects they were involved with. There's so much emotional loading in straw poll responses....

Oracle's intention to buy Hyperion for big bucks is more evidence that the war for executive mindshare is heating up: Oracle says to buy rival Hyperion for $3.3 billion (Reuters Business News : MSN Money) I wonder what the BI skeptics think now. I hope...

A 12-step program for email addiction? Seriously, just because I have a wireless broadband PC card for my Vista Tablet, multiple Windows Mobile devices and I think that DirectPush is the bomb, doesn't mean that I have a problem... "Hi, I'm Bob, and I...

I avoid thinking about the potential recursion paradox. There lies madness... IBM Launches Developers' Resources In Second Life (InformationWeek) Who owns the intellectual property for code that you write while pretending to write code? There are lots...

Focused on buying or selling services for open source software? Yet Another Foray into Contract Programmer Promotion is coming soon to a large open source repository near you. They'd like to know which parts of the game you're interested in. Marketplace...