Time is a luxury that it is easy to take for granted.  In our late-career years and our early retirement, we managed to build and enjoy a remote mountain log...

My interpretation of the George Floyd event involves several considerations. Mr Floyd was not an innocent upstanding law-abiding citizen simply protesting. If he had been home watching TV...

"so for everyone to mount a flag in their front yard seems to me like a form of virtue signaling."

First, let me just say that my comments weren't directed...

Wow... ok.  I raise my drink to all of you, thank my lucky stars that I "know" all of you, and be incredibly thankful that we all live in...

Eric, maybe I didn't understand your meaning then...

Grant, the lesson here might be 'Don't kick an old dog'.

My task this morning is to create SQL code that will convert text fractional stock prices to six decimal place...

I have no problem with the USA flag, but I wouldn't mount it in my front yard, for much the same reason that I only wear company...

I have no problem with the USA flag, but I wouldn't mount it in my front yard, for much the same reason that I only wear company branded polo...

I encourage all of you in the USA on here to get a permanent flag pole for your home and proudly display our flag every day.  My wife and I...

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God bless America, my home, sweet home.

And we used to think patching was a big challenge.  I've been talking with my son ( who is 55 years old ) about the updating challenge he and a...

a relational store is likely better

It is important to remind everyone that a relational DBMS is not a way of "storing" data. The relational model provides a logical...

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But at the back of my mind is an increasingly loud voice telling me that the problems we experience in the data world have got nothing to do with...

Reported in The Economist just last week: "Working 55 hours or more a week is 'a serious health hazard' according to the World Health Organisation, in a first...

Many years ago at one point in 1974 I started a shop from scratch for a company with 24-hour operations.  In those days of CRT terminals I had 5 Teamsters...

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