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SQL Server Central: Pivot table for Microsoft SQL Server. I have used a limited version of this before, but this claims to be a general purpose solution for pivoting data. Cool.
New York Times: Story Time in the Senate.

More to come…

Scripting News: A decade in a download. First, congrats to Dave—having recently hit a little brick wall in posting to my blog, my respect for anyone who can pull it off for ten years knows no bounds.
But I’ll confess: the quant analyst in me is slavering at the thought of a downloadable 10-year blog archive. [...]

It’s not every day that you hear about a new business plan, without a company around it.
Anyone want to work on RSS-I with me?

Courtesy BBSpot: the RIAA Lawsuit Decision Matrix.
Hee.
I think they left a few things out, though. Like:

Is the defendant a minor?

N: Go to “Sue, but use the dumb lawyers.”
Y: Can we sue the disabled grandmother?

N: Go to “Sue, but use the dumb lawyers.”
Y: Go to “Really? Awesome.”

Because not everything can be serious all the time, I give you: Cute dog playing virtual soccer:

Because really, if I don’t share these viral videos with you, who will?

It is a logical question, but it surprises me that the Cavalier Daily was the first place to print the question about longtime UVA professor and Dean Ed Ayers’s impending move to the presidency of University of Richmond: is it a destination for Ayers, or a stepping stone?
To his credit, Ayers said to the unnamed [...]

Fidelio was pretty darned good today, and Friday was OK too. At least judging from the Globe’s review:

…prior to last night’s performance, it was announced from the stage that Brewer herself had been fighting a cold, though she would still be singing. In the end, Brewer proved more than up to the task. One could [...]

Lisa and I are trying to branch out a bit and eat healthier, and for me that means trying some more Asian recipes. Tonight we cheated, buying some pre-marinated boolkogi from Trader Joe’s and trying a recipe for generic Korean greens. The recipe wasn’t bad, but in retrospect I would have used a stronger vinegar [...]

Artist: Robyn Hitchcock
Album: Jewels for Sophia
People flocked like cattle to Seattle
After Kurt Cobain
And before him the rain
Hendrix played guitar just like an animal
Who’s trapped inside a cage
And one day he escaped
Do you want to pay for this in cash?
Viva! Seattle Tacoma, viva viva Sea-Tac
Viva! Seattle Tacoma, viva viva Sea-Tac
Viva viva viva viva viva Sea-Tac
They’ve got [...]

This was an amazingly quick trip; we landed at SeaTac (Viva SeaTac!) at 12 and were at our customer’s site in Tacoma at 1:30; headed to dinner at 5; watched Tennessee lose to Ohio State (sorry, Kelsey); and now I’m up, listening to the KEXP stream and sipping French press coffee in my room and [...]

I’m back in the air today. On the agenda: a meeting in Tacoma. It will be the first time I’ve been back in the Puget Sound area since I left on my cross country trip in 2004.
I’m looking forward to our overnight stay at Hotel 1000 in Seattle. I never spent much time near Pioneer [...]

…when Maestro Levine breaks his baton during a rehearsal. Not even dress, yet!
I’m back with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, after a few months off, for a series of performances of Beethoven’s Fidelio. The BSO is going all out on this one, with downloadable previews (also available on their podcast, to which, I confess, I do [...]

I am starting to think I may need an intervention.
I have three lengths of trim waiting installation for the kitchen; two new Akurum cabinets to mount to add storage to an underutilized 30″ wall in the dining room; and a bunch of spare shelves to mount in the garage. But I see this post on [...]

Interesting article in the New York Times today about how airlines handle communications with customers when something goes wrong. Perhaps because JetBlue is too busy figuring out what the hell happened over the last six weeks to talk to the press, the paper talks to the “chief apology officer” of Southwest Airlines. And the article [...]

As in, boy I’m mighty thor after blowing all the thnow off my driveway. Ouch. You know, though, if I’m complaining after a mere six inches of frozen precipitation, it really has been a mild winter.
To celebrate, then, ten semi-random songs about snow, winter, and spring:

Red Garland, “Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year” [...]