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It has been long time since my last post

Well, I am into singing now.  My range is G1 to C5 (high C), but singable range is about D2 to G4.   I am a bass or dramatic baritone.

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Billowing clouds of epic proportion

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At the other end, is it Spring or Autumn? I am hesitating…

  Where to go?  

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Strange account SSAS

In FoodMart 2005, there is an account dimension, one attribute, Accounts, which is mapped to (KeyColumn) Account.account_parent(int) and (NameColumn) Account.account_parent(wchar).  This attribute is marked type "Account" and Usage is "Parent".   One thing I am confused is that I can change … Continue reading

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a 70 year old, still running 3 mile many times a week

I was really inspired by this 70 year-old.  He started running in his 40s because of illness and became the fittest person in our group.  Many years passed and he still keep running.  Hats off to him! I will continue … Continue reading

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A young (30+) female senior architect? give me a break

What is an architect in the banking system?  Can a lady as young as 30 something be a senior architect?  What is she architecting?  And how did she acquired the seniority?  No wonder the banking system in the US is … Continue reading

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OK, member properties bothered me a lot until I found this article

Basically, I expected the member properties to show up with the MDX query, but actually they are hidden in the label, you need to click the label to revel those properties…  ahhh, how clever! 10. Use Member Properties to Store … Continue reading

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on my way back to china

it is snowing at ohara airport where i am taking flight 289 to shanghai.

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MDX is exceedingly hard to grasp

I predict that understanding MDX will pose grave difficulty for non-English speakers because language is inadequate to describe MDX concepts.  Many a time, you just read what it says about a concept over and over again, still you can’t figure … Continue reading

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Answers from an outsourcing expert James Wheeler

When asked about what companies in the West will do in face of the bleak economic situation in 2009: James’s answer: I think that the recent "global slump" will increase the number of Western companies looking to China for services … Continue reading

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