This is stricly an off-topic post, but Hey, this is a blog, right? I don't often get the opportunity to tell a tale like this, but it's true.

The faucet in my kitchen sink sprang a leak and I had to call a plumber. A very competent fellow showed up this morning, a German whose wife is a post-doc biochemist at Stanford. They've lived here 4 years, so his German accent was recognizable and we got into a friendly discussion. He comes from Potsdam and so I drug out the album with photos...

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Well, somebody's gotta get this new blogging system off the ground, so it might as well be me.

Many of you already know that I'm notorious for ranting about table structure, normalization, and related design issues, even when some innocent soul asks a perfectly simple question like, "How can I search for addresses that might be either in Address1 or Address2 fields?" Nothing in there about how the table is designed. Just a simple question, right?

I've been...

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