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A Rich Story
What is Rich? A rich man decided to go on vacation to a faraway land, bringing his family with him to enjoy the experience. When he arrived, he saw some friends and invited them to join him for the...
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Long Term Financial Goals as of January 2009
It is well documented that setting goals is made more effective when those goals are shared with other people. Goal setting is a good thing. I’ve known it for most of my life, even when I have not been...
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Learning DataStage
Being a DataStage ETL developer, I have spent plenty of time over the past few years working with a tool that has proven to be both powerful and, at times, frustrating. Powerful, in that it can handle...
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Transform Question in DataStage
Found this old question in the Data Direct Technologies Forum. I think it makes a good example exercise, since it can be solved multiple ways, but is short enough to address in a single (long) post. I...
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Renovations Underway
Sorry for the lack of new posts in some time. Learning how to develop a new custom theme and deciding just what I really want to use this blog for.
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Book Reviews
As indicated back in April 2009, I was contemplating making a change in the direction of this blog. Like many – perhaps most – it was after writing for a little while that I began to question why I was...
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Book Review: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is a novel by Phillip K. Dick. It also happens to be the story behind one of my favorite movies of all time: Bladerunner. I actually saw the movie (several times)...
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Book Review: A Kiss of Shadows
Laurell K Hamilton writes in a genre that I generally avid: romance. That was almost enough to stop me from reading this book. Ultimately, I chose to read this book for a couple of reasons: I am...
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Book Review: Sit and Go Strategy
Collin Moshman is a mathematician who turned away from post-graduate economics studies when he chose to pursue poker as a full-time professional. He has also written several books including this one....
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Book Review: Return Engagement (Settling Accounts, Book 1)
Harry Turtledove scrambles history for us, taking situations from the first half of the 20th century and mixing them up geographically. Imagine a dis-United States split into independent North and...
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