Well at least there wasn’t any brimstone

Two weeks ago I started work in a new office at MIT Sloan Management Review. With this move comes the odd luxury of working in a building at MIT that is a) 101 years old, b) actually has offices (vs. cubicles), c) has four windows with ample natural light, and d) river views. All in [...]

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Chicken Florentine Recipe

There’s fresh spinach in the fridge looking for a meal other than salad so I did a little searching for “chicken spinach cream sauce” which led me to a bunch of recipes about “chicken florentine“. Now who am I going to trust more:  the food network, cooks.com, southernfood.about.com, or some blogger? What’s Southern Food got [...]

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Sneak preview: new masthead

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Wordle Riddle

Name that tune:

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Google Trends: Facebook vs. MySpace

Somewhere around the end of the 1st quarter Facebook exceeded MySpaces search volume index. Changing the “rank by” filter shows some interesting things too: In South Africa Facebook far exceeds MySpace; #1 city for MySpace is Tijuana, Mexico.

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wordle

Rethinking the ‘War for Talent’ – Wordle view

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MySQL Crosstab Query

After wrangling with the data in python trying to effect a cross-tab result I finally stepped back and learned how to do it in MySQL. MS-Access has this nifty TRANSFORM … PIVOT function that was so handy I used to keep a copy of Access around just for this one function. (I even wrote a [...]

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