Archive for January, 2009

Baking bread

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

For the last few weeks I’ve been baking bread. It’s been a lot of fun, and much of the bread has been great!

It started just before Christmas when we got a Kitchenaid mixer that my wife had wanted for a while. I decided to try it out on bread dough.

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Upgrading my reports

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

I’m in the middle of a long (6 months or more) project to upgrade all of my reports. I’m doing this for two major reasons. We’re gradually migrating the data warehouse from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005, and as I move my projects to a new 2005 server I’m trying to review my code to take advantage of new SQL 2005 features. At least as important is the fact that we’re in the process of putting in a new billing system, which means that most of the data sources for my programs are going to be changing.

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