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At the time of writing this post, I can see yellow leaves falling to the pavements and feel the cold breeze kissing my cheeks. No matter how hard I try to resist it, reality is dawning on me that the summer has gone by and that the winter is finally settling in (yeah, I know some of you might argue ......
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So one more objective struck off from my annual list. Even though I had nightmares where my laptop crashed just before my session, nothing untoward happened and I managed to complete my first session at SQLBits without any problems. ......
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What do you do in your evenings when you are sent off from your base location on a month long consulting assignment? Well, I had an option to soak up the old Beatles numbers in the Cavern Pub (the birthplace of Beatles) every evening, now that I am in Liverpool. But a particular book got me hooked t......
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<p align="justify"><font color="#000000" size="2">I don’t know whether it is the same with you guys but for me, it is a bit hard to get on track and start work after a long vacation. Usually, the initial few days are spent idle before the computer and if I don’t make an effort to control it, my mood......
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So that’s one objective struck off from my list for this year. Yes, I made a presentation on the mapping features in SSRS 2008 R2 for the London BI User Group on 21 June, 2010. The UG meeting was held in the Hitachi office near London Bridge and was attended by around 30 people. A big thanks to Hita......
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As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, nowadays I am busy preparing the design document of my new project and sending it around for reviews. If there is one question I could pick from the list that keeps coming back to me frequently, that would be this – why are you recommending to store all th......
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Waking up early morning for a technical webinar is so not me (I really love to have my sleep in the morning!); but then I was very interested in the PowerPivot webinar which was going to be taken by Rupesh Patric (Microsoft Partner Technical Consultant and an accomplished artist) exclusively for peo......
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There is one interesting story about NASA floating around the internet for quite some time now. The story goes like this - NASA spent millions to develop a pen that could write in space under zero gravity while the Soviet cosmonauts just used a pencil. Even though this is just a myth, I found it pre......
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Sometimes we get pampered so much by modern technology that we tend to raise the bar of necessity towards the fringes of luxury. 10 years back, a mobile phone was a luxury in my native place. Today, even school children carry one along with them and most of them take it as granted. Similarly, I had ......
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Two weeks back, I was reading an insightful article by Thomas LaRock - Delivering a Great Presentation. A couple of lines kept on lingering in my mind, mainly - &quo......
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