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Taxes, Bridges, and Quality of Life in Minneapolis

Last week we were walking along Minnehaha Creek and crossed the bridge over the creek at 32nd Avenue. I noticed that one decking plank had come loose. I knew it would come off completely in a few days and called 311 to report the issue. A few days later, the old screws had been replaced with four new screws; the bridge was solid again. It made me think, This is why we have taxes. This is why we...

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Water bubbling under ice on Lake Hiawatha path.

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The Biased Survey About Enterprise Search

I’m in a webinar about Enterprise Search right now. It started with the survey you see below that asks, “How would you describe your level of satisfaction w/ Enterprise Search” The options are: “Terffic” [sic], “Sub-optimal,” “It’s a random document generator,” and “We have search???” I don’t want to make too much of...

Mar 8th

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Windows XP and the Catch-22 | Another Rant...

You know, I could swear that I’ve ranted about this exact same situation before. Perhaps this catch-22 is also an infinite loop. I might even be hitting up against a Vonnegutian [sic] chronosynclastic infundibulum. Anarchy! Gridlock! But I digress, as is my wont. Microsoft! Windows XP! These are the banes of my workaday world! Today it was installing 22 updates. Are they updated? Good...

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