Men and women communicate differently. That is not going to change. We all need to speak and understand the "foreign" language of the other sex. I did not hear anyone...

Jeff, I promise not to take either of your comments the wrong way. I too am curious. Unfortunately I can not speak for others. I appreciate your honesty and thoughtfullness...

Nice Article.

The only thing I would add is that I would say we should not even rely on "Lasting impresions". We should always be listening and reacting in the "present"...

Tim,

What a wonderfully article. I enjoyed the story of your life possibly the most. Does your family still have possession of the "utility room" or has it past out of...

Steve, if you worked with some of the people I have in my job history you would be disappointed a lot.

The truth is any "great next best think" is only...

Great article. Very provoking.

One thing that jumped out at me was that I would say that if "we are steering" the conversation we are not really listening to what the...

I think it is marketing gone amok. In the world of the consumer an appliance is a single task item. Either it cools food, it freezes food, it cooks food,...

And I think you did a great job Tony.

[This is a paraphrase from a Teddy Roosevelt quote I have read somewhere here on SSC]

-- The glory belongs to those...

I started out in the Oracle space and from that experience I was not expecting the level of help, niceness, and comraderie that Steve and the usual suspects, as well...

That because "we did it that way last time", means we did it correct.

Everything else I would eventually put in a box, but "Daddy, you won? I am so proud of you." that TRULY is priceless.

I think this site is pretty darn marvelous the way it is for what I use it for, which is almost all things SQL Server. I do not think I...

As long as you "send ... some coffee and a tasty snack " I would be happy to negoiate a price!! Truthfully being one of those dreaded <sarcasm> consultants who...

I too ran the gamut. " the idiots ... wait know why wouldn't that be good?" .. snicker snicker. Thanks Steve.

Dave62 (4/1/2010)

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my days working with PeopleSoft in Oracle. NULLs...

Great article Andy, and great comments.

In my life it has been all about appropriate boundries. Know what you can do and need to do and just becuase you can do...