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When unemployment figures are at an all time high, it is reassuring to read that Microsoft are busy working on virtual replacements capable of multi-tasking for those who still have jobs.
Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft, during a discussion about why Microsoft continues to invest in research and innovation [...]

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Have you ever tried to migrate data from MS Access to MySQL?
It should be straight-forward enough. Export to Excel, then save as CSV, import to MySQL.  You will probably need to customise the format of some fields such as date or currency. Checking that all the data has slipped nicely into the correct fields takes [...]

Recently I’ve been side-tracked by some unusual events in my life.   There was my first visit to the high court, swiftly followed by my first visit to a creditors meeting -  but that’s a story for another day. ..
So distracted was I that I missed the publication of my guest posting on Joe Scanlon’s  – [...]

My post yesterday must have upset Twitter…

Someone suggested to me that joining twitter is good for business.  So I did…

It’s completely insane! You ‘follow’ people, they ‘follow’ you. People ‘tweet’ stupid stuff about themselves:
‘I have a headache’, ‘I’m on the bus’, ‘I hate the rain’,  ‘I’m eating a kebab’,  ‘I love my new coffee machine’, ‘nn now’
So how is this good [...]