From The Grumpy Old Man: Mercury Falling
I don’t know whether you’ve been paying attention to the press lately, but the media are jumping on environmental subjects like vultures. That was the case for energy saving lamps. Some British study...
View ArticleFrom The Grumpy Old Man: Valentine on a bed of roses
The NBV (Netwerk Bewust Verbruiken or Network for Concerned Consumption), the FIAN (Foodfirst Information & Action Network), Velt (Ecologisch Leven en Tuinieren or Association for Living and...
View ArticleSpiders from Mars
Let’s say you’ve set up a site and/or a blog, you’ve made some promotion for it and now you’re eager to discover how many hits your site/blog has had. To your surprise you see three things:The search...
View ArticleBeyond words
Earlier last week, a BBC-documentary was broadcasted on Belgian television. The documentary showed a institution for light mentally handicapped children. That was the official name for it. In reality...
View ArticleA Aventura Calculada
As you might know, I'm member of the environmental advisory body in my town. This is a rather active advisory board with 9 regular and 3 special meetings (board meetings excluded) in 2007. It shouldn't...
View ArticleEuros múltiples de recompensa
I've told in the 'A Aventura Calculada' blog that we, as the environmental advisory body in my town, should do some CO2 compensation for our meetings. I'll elaborate in this blog on how we calculated...
View ArticleRecycled Life
Some while ago, a debate started on Twitter concerning recycling. Since Twitter is a bit narrow to elaborate on things, James Governor a.k.a. Greenmonk came up with the excellent idea to create a wiki...
View ArticleSounds like teen spirit
For some reason, the ability to use the Soundex algorithm during SQL queries in SAP is little known (see also this, rather basic, help page). It seems that SAP doesn't want us to know that it exists...
View ArticleFrom The Grumpy Old Man: Throwing Out the Baby With the Bathwater
I was rather thrilled when I saw a Business Objects for Higher Educationappear in my RSS reader about Business Objects within the Higher Education market since these are two areas where I'm active in....
View ArticleFrom The Grumpy Old Man: SAP employees confuse SCN with Twitter
I don't know what instructions SAP is giving to their employees but they are surely damaging the SCN blogging system when they continue in such way. Here's a list of todays blogs:How to correct posting...
View ArticleFrom The Grumpy Old Man: Is it worth keeping the SAPPHIRE burning?
I'm currently at SAPPHIRE - a SAP conference ‘where senior executives, business managers, and decision-makers can come together to explore how innovative business solutions foster long-term,...
View ArticleBI BI Baby, BI BI
As you know, I'm currently covering SAPPHIRE as a blogger. But as a BI person, I'm also interested in what would be said about BO and how existent BI (Bex) users should look at it. As you know from a...
View ArticleSDN Top Contributor Tag Travels The World
Since a couple of months I'm into geocaching. Geo what? Well Wikipedia says about geocaching the following:Geocaching is an outdoor treasure-hunting game in which the participants use a Global...
View ArticleFrom The Grumpy Old Man: Sayōnara Greetings
Yes, it's that time of the year again where food and family comes together. Traditionally I share a pudding recipe with you and this time it's a modern version of the classic tiramisu. Ingredients (4...
View ArticleIt's a small world after all
I recently had the pleasure of escaping the cold north and enjoying a week’s vacation on a Caribbean cruise. Perhaps it is telling that I specifically chose a cruise as a way to force myself to spend a...
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