A quick alternative to this is creating a table of hoidays you want to skip and then incorporating some of the ideas from this other thread on not sending scheduled...

A few years ago a guy ran out onto the field during a Twins game and started playing around while the middle-aged security guys plodded after him. It wasn't...

Journeyman knuckleballer R A Dickey, currently washed up on the beach in AAA Buffalo, had himself a night last evening.

Here's the story:

Buffalo (WKBW.com) Bisons pitcher R.A. Dickey threw a...

Here's something I came across this morning. A two hour rain delay and a couple of bored college teams results in something, um, unprecedented? unexpected? Let's go to the video:...

Revenue sharing in baseball has been wonderful because it doesn't stop you from spending, it just makes it outrageously more expensive. That way if it's your year you can...

Actually the NFL is significantly different from the other major sports in that the revenue streams are national. In other sports the much higher number of gates and the existance...

The last three posts are how we're doing things and it really has helped. IT frames it up and business chooses from our estimates or maybe bargains for a middle...

I think it is a valid question to ask. Maybe an outsourcer can do it faster, cheaper, or better.

I'm kind of in agreement here. Outsourcing isn't the slam dunk...

That said - when your figures are accurate, and the managers start to realize that their department is tied to a whole set of costs, then they can participate in...

Frankly at this point it appears to be a lot more about emnity than anything else. This is, after all, a high-profile divorce that they're conducting via the press. Ick.

Red Hat exists because of the gap between licensing and implementation costs. But really, most software, regardless of the initial cost, has that same gap and most IT professionals live...

jay holovacs (3/29/2010)

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The 'not a career path' statement is probably not really true.

Most of us (DBAs, programers, administrators, etc) DO NOT write the system code in MS SQL or other...

This Mauer kid might play. Good to see they're giving him a shot.

He's pretty much worth more to the Twins than anyone else, given the hometown angle, the new stadium...

He'll get his money in MN too. Pohlads write checks when the baseball guys think the player is worth it. Puckett was the singularly highest paid player in the game...

In small companies a lot is dictated by how the business is going. If we have money it's because we're working a lot, so we don't have time. If we...