November 29th, 2009 | Categories: uncategorized | Tags: , ,

The Queens Gaels celebrate their Vanier Cup victory after a comeback 33-31 victory over the Calgary Dinos in Quebec City on Saturday. (Tyler Ball)

Fantastic football game.

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September 20th, 2009 | Categories: uncategorized | Tags: , ,

A free trial of IBM InfoSphere Warehouse is now available.

You can download it here.

The trial allows you to evaluate the Enterprise Edition of InfoSphere Warehouse 9.7 for 90-days at no cost.  All features are enabled in the trial.

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July 25th, 2009 | Categories: how-to | Tags: , ,

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
- William S. Burroughs
Google Alerts

Whether you call it egosurfing, egosearching, or vanity searching, you have probably tried “googling yourself” at least once.  That is, you typed your name into your favourite search engine to see what results appeared.

If you want to keep regular tabs on those search results, it can be a annoying to re-type your name each time.  To prevent writer’s cramp, you can turn to a free service called Google Alerts.  Google Alert provides automatic email updates on search results for keywords that you provide.

It is very easy to create a Google Alert for your name.  The instructions are below:

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imageBack in December, I highlighted the availability of the a new InfoSphere Warehouse Redbook that focused exclusively on our Cubing Services OLAP feature.

[If you’re unfamiliar with benefits of Cubing Services, check out this short video.]

Since then, the team at IBM International Technical Support Organization (ITSO) have been working hard with our InfoSphere Warehouse experts to deliver new 2 free publications.

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February 28th, 2009 | Categories: tips, toronto | Tags: , , ,

Do yourself a favour and visit FRANK Restaurant at the Art Gallery of Ontario.  I recently had brunch there.  Delicious.

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February 28th, 2009 | Categories: gtd, tips | Tags: , ,

Here are 2 simple tips that were included in the latest edition of David Allen’s Productivity Principles Newsletter:

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Your friends at IBM InfoSphere Warehouse have made it easier to deploy data warehouses and data marts in virtualized environments.

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January 25th, 2009 | Categories: db2, mac | Tags: , , ,

MacRumours.com pointed out that January 24, 2009 marked the 25th anniversary of the introduction of the Apple Macintosh.

Below is a YouTube video of a younger (and healthier) Steve Job’s demonstrating the Mac.

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January 25th, 2009 | Categories: tips, web | Tags:

I see more and more co-workers starting to use LinkedIn.  If you’re new to the service, you’ll want to checkout a post I wrote in the summer of 2007 entitled “LinkedIn Tips”.  It contains links to a number of helpful articles.

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Are you looking to squeeze the most out of IBM InfoSphere Warehouse’s Cubing Services?

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