Archive for March, 2004

Herding Mynah Birds

Monday, March 15th, 2004

Betsy Aoki has been working on the ?one list to end them all? for keeping track of Microsoft bloggers. I recently decided to stop maintaining my list of MSFT bloggers, since it was too difficult keeping up. One advantage of Betsy’s list is that it’s self-service; any Microsoft employee can enter their own information, categorize […]

China vs. India and Offshoring

Monday, March 15th, 2004

Generally, people assume that India has the edge in offshoring, particularly because of the use of English for education. But People’s Daily begs to differ, offering their own view of the things working for and against each country.

What’s Up at Noble Court?

Sunday, March 14th, 2004

Today a bunch of us had dimsum at Noble Court. For the many years we’ve
been going, it has been the one of the best dimsum places in Seattle. However,
something has changed […]

The Opposite of FOAF

Friday, March 12th, 2004

One of my friends is breaking new ground with semantic web; he set up a directory of annoying salespeople, and he?s naming names. Agent Smith followed suit, albeit a bit more constructively. Note that a similar project recently failed, as doctors were using a web site to keep track of patients who filed malpractice suits, […]

Normalization == good?

Wednesday, March 10th, 2004

Frice is
talking about database normalization. Beginners usually do not have a good
grasp of normalization principles, and end up with database designs that create maintenance
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