Many moons (and about four jobs) ago, a wise DBA by the name of David Hanson once recommended to me a book called Microsoft SQL…
Life would be simpler if I had the source code
Author: ian
I’m off to the MSDN Technical roadshow in Harrogate tomorrow, and am actually really looking forward to it this time. These events are free, so…
When I mentioned Edward R. Tufte’s excellent The Visual Display of Quantitative Information in a recent blog post, it prompted me to search North Yorkshire’s…
Fifty-three years since Darrell Huff published the seminal How to Lie with Statistics, and still we have newspapers as august as The Times pulling the…
I keep intending, and forgetting to post a couple of videos from our US holiday last April. I suppose I was hoping to get round…
I am now a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer in .NET 1.x technologies. This is a qualification that I’ve been working towards on and (more often…
On this Remembrance Sunday, permit me to share with you a photo that my cousin Helen took this week of our Granduncle’s grave in France.…
Late last night I reached a small but significant milestone in my family tree research: I now know the names of my sixteen great-great-grandparents! Or…
“INTPs are always so mentally active that they continually delve into new interests… The interests of an INTP would be enough to occupy him for…
Having accepted that Returning DataSets from WebServices is the Spawn of Satan and Represents All That Is Truly Evil in the World (or at least,…