Gary - added your blog to my list, had missed it. Maybe add it to your signature?

Thanks David. I think thats exactly right on aggression, and if we're on the receiving side and can turn off the primal urge to respond in kind, we might make...

DJ, most of us in IT do pretty well at learning - maybe thats why we're here? We do a lot of incremental learning so its not often we're too...

Gary, I don't any experience with Eastern culture, but what you say fits my impressions from what I've read about it here and there, I had not considered it as...

I've had a lot of success with a state based/compare approach, it worked out to be a lot easier and more accurate than asking devs to coordinate/submit scripts. I'm a...

My goal is balance, but to also let them explore the things that appeal to them and aren't obviously harmful. It's not easy to get right of course. Time will...

I'm using OpenDNS at home. Not perfect, better than nothing. It's just a hard task because they have wifi enabled tablets, one as a phone, Xbox, WiiU, probably something else,...

Very good stuff in this one.

I finally read the book, had it on my list for too long! Interesting to think about timespans beyond a lifetime.

Rob, I don't think it was cynical, more frustration. It can surely seem like a catch22 or worse! Being tired and/or stressed will just add to that, and it's easy...

Rob, I'd like to think that most places aren't quite that demanding, at least not all the time, so maybe it is worth looking at the market now before your...

Interruptions aren't all bad, I think few of us want a work life that never varies from some plan. It's the rate of interruptions that has to match the role,...

I've never fully explored it, but it will let you use an IN in the where clause. I think the behavior is that it gets evaluated for the snapshot ok,...

I'm in favor of encryption, but it doesn't replace obfuscatation. A common scenario is needing to test/investigate against as close as possible to a production copy, without the rrisk of...

It changes how long commands are retained in distribution, basically they would get removed after 4 hours.