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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February 16th, 2009 | Categories: db2, infosphere warehouse | Tags: , , , ,

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.

In other news, DB2 9.5 is now available for free on Mac OS X Leopard.

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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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November 30th, 2008 | Categories: db2 | Tags:

Should you or shouldn’t you?

If your enterprise runs DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, you probably know that a growing number of installations have made the move to DB2 9.5, and reaped the benefits.

Is it time for you to do the same?

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November 30th, 2008 | Categories: gtd | Tags:

[Wow, it’s been awhile since I posted any GTD links.]

Brett, a fellow IBMer and the creator of the GTD For Lotus Notes tool, passed allowing a link to the Productive! Magazine.  It’s a free magazine that features the best posts from a variety of productivity bloggers.  The magazine is available in Adobe Reader (PDF) format.

The first edition was just published.on November 20, 2008 and contains an interview with David Allen.

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November 30th, 2008 | Categories: db2, how-to, publications | Tags:

In September, Kevin See and I published a how-to article on IBM’s popular developerWorks community website.  The article describes the new SQL-based Administrative Task Scheduler that was introduced in DB2 9.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows.

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July 3rd, 2008 | Categories: gadgets | Tags:

Canadian national newspaper discusses the plan pricing differences between Rogers and AT&T.

You will find this story, The iPhone’s cross-border price clash, on the front page of the Report on Business section of today’s Global and Mail newspaper.

As I pointed out in this post on June 30, a number of iPhone hungry Canadians were upset at Roger’s voice and data packages for the iPhone 3G.

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