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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Reed Me : performance</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/tags/performance/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: performance</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>This explains so many things... Scott Adams explains compensation modeling?</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/2009/07/09/this-explains-so-many-things-scott-adams-explains-compensation-modeling.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:06:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9827533</guid><dc:creator>reedme</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/comments/9827533.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9827533</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=9827533</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;This metaphor can probably be extended to ‘splain corporate and governmental policies of all kinds!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-07-09/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/60000/0000/300/60356/60356.strip.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Of course, it would actually be worse (at least for me) if compensation was tied to the performance of friends and family. Heh!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;For the record, I used to work there... and I still ain’t laffing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9827533" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/tags/geek+humor/default.aspx">geek humor</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/tags/annoyances/default.aspx">annoyances</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/tags/performance/default.aspx">performance</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/tags/bleep/default.aspx">bleep</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/tags/compensation/default.aspx">compensation</category></item><item><title>Thank you, Captain Obvious.</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/2008/07/03/thank-you-captain-obvious.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:12:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8686026</guid><dc:creator>reedme</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/comments/8686026.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8686026</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=8686026</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;Actually, my oldest son is the original Captain Obvious in my life, but Michael Campbell does a good impression of him in &lt;a href="http://www.sqlmag.com/Article/ArticleID/99148/sql_server_99148.html" target="_blank"&gt;Performance Secrets for SQL Server Developers (sqlmag.com)&lt;/a&gt;. Heh. Not that it's a bad thing. Being reminded of the obvious every once in a while is important.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;For the record, the only part of the article that I disagree with is that those are Secrets&amp;#8482;. :-P&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8686026" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/tags/database/default.aspx">database</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/tags/SQL+Server/default.aspx">SQL Server</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/reedme/archive/tags/performance/default.aspx">performance</category></item></channel></rss>