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Some of you will recall a recent blog entry where I documented some of my experience upgrading Unidata and Universe. I just finished upgrading QM. Dang, I love it when it’s easy.

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For better or worse, there are no standards for MV / Pick dictionary (schema) definitions. Over the years people have created names like AMOUNT, AMT, AMT$, PCT, PERCENT, %PCT, etc. There are funky characters and mis-spellings and inconsistencies even within each individual application. Shall we try to clean some of this up?

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Did you know you can use a single code base for multiple incompatible MV DBMS platforms? Most developers only care about coding to a single platform but many of us support many platforms. Those who do support multiple platforms have their own preferred way of maintaining their code.

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A lot of people think they’re "reason"able, but when people take sides for politics or religion it’s amazing how all logic contrary to their opinion goes out the window. The person who won the debate is the person you were for, before the debate started. The person you like always answers the questions better than the person you don’t like.

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I never wanted this blog to get non-technical or political, but here we are. I’ve written a number of blog entries over the last year that I never published but I’ve decided to let some of them into the wild. It’s interesting how some of my comments from back in January still apply today. Here is one of the unpublished blog entries from January. Ironically a comment was made in the media today that with only a couple weeks to go until elections, people will have a short memory on everything from issues to the latest (real or ficticious) scandal.

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A recent U2 forum discussion brought up yet another topic that’s been close to my heart for a long time. The original inquiry was for an interface from PHP to Universe. Many people have excellent suggestions. The topic gradually starts to include Perl and Java. But there is a bigger picture here.

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This is another blog entry I wrote back in January but never published. At the time people were giving Hillary Clinton grief for her associations, and bad comments made by her surrogates. Today, if Sarah Palin or a surrogate makes similar comments, they are defended to the end - and anyone who objects is labelled a woman hater. My how the world changes in just a few months.

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Tom Phillips says "Looks like BO is having problems proving his citizenship." This is the biggest crock of s**t I’ve seen yet. The summary is that a lawyer submitted a questionaire with a stream of 56 false statements and didn’t receive a response, so by default, he claims all of the statements are true and idiots everywhere are nodding their heads. None of those statements were uttered by Barack Obama but brainless people everywhere are now spreading the word as though he did. … People, read the honkin text !

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In a recent, seemingly endless CDP thread, I’m just appalled at some of the non-sense that people will spew. A recent post finally pulled me out of my shell for a little commentary. In short, the republican author satirically cites 21 humorous reasons why a democrat should not be USA VP - as though this is the sort of reasoning people are actually using in their decision making process.

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