It’s nearly Christmas, which is what I’m blaming for my current woes: PC problems.

I think my main PC is jealous because I was considering building a new one. I’m eyeing all these newer components—the latest and greatest CPUs and GPUs (pricey!)—and getting a bit carried away since my current gaming rig is perfectly fine. Or was fine.

This weekend it started acting out. I’ve had to fire up a different machine to type this post because it won’t go past the BIOS screen and also won’t let me press the key that takes me into the BIOS, which means I’m basically stuck. Really not sure how to resolve a boot issue if I can’t access Windows or the BIOS!

I don’t need this crap right now!

In any case, let’s do this Wordle and then I can get back to

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OData has been adopted by many software solutions and has been around for many years. Most solutions are using the OData is to serve their transactional processes. But as we know, Power BI is an analytical solution that can fetch hundreds of thousands (or millions) rows of data in a single table. So, obviously, OData is not optimised for that kind of purpose. One of the biggest challenges many Power BI developers face when working with OData connections is performance issues. The performance depends on numerous factors such as the size of tables in the backend database that the OData connection is serving, peak read data volume over periods of time, throttling mechanism to control over-utilisation of resources etc…

So, generally speaking, we do not expect to get a blazing fast data refresh performance over OData connections, that’s why in many cases using OData connections for analytical tools such as

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Italian sticker company Panini have made their first foray into women’s club soccer after announcing their Spanish division, Panini Cromos will release a collection for the Spanish top flight, the Primera División de la Liga de Fútbol Femenino, known as Liga F.

After the success of similar women’s soccer collections for international tournaments, Spain has stolen a march on some of its European rivals by launching the first Panini sticker album for a national women’s league which will no doubt lead to demand for similar collections in other countries.

The agreement between Panini and Liga F begins this season and will initially run until the 2026/2027 campaign

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My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week.

I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one I took on the road.

  • Growthfyi – This tool helps to load Google Analytics faster for more accurate data collection. It also stops cross-domain tracking making it GDPR-compliant.
  • Senja – Easily collect, manage, and share your testimonials like never before. Senja has a super simple and easy-to-setup testimonial tool making it easy for your happy customers to share their reviews. It also has a dashboard for you to manage all your past reviews in one place. 
  • Page Improve by Semrush – This easy-to-use Chrome extension allows practically anyone to improve their SEO
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The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index increased zero.2 factors in May, rising to ninety three.8. Four of the ten components posted good points on the month, whereas 4 declined. Your complete acquire in the index was as a consequence of a 5 point increase in Anticipated Business Situations which remains 9 factors under its 12 months ago degree.

One of the very first issues it’s essential to consider are licensing laws from both your state and county during which you’ll be performing work. There may be a common handyman license supplied, or you might must secure privileges to perform sure individual tasks resembling portray or carpentry. Because the licensing and regulations of this profession is so different from state to state, it’s best to begin there.

The easiest way to search out out if different Hubbers are on Twitter is to check for the Twitter icon on their profile page. …

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Business Intelligence Components and How They Relate to Power BI

When I decided to write this blog post, I thought it would be a good idea to learn a bit about the history of Business Intelligence. I searched on the internet, and I found this page on Wikipedia. The term Business Intelligence as we know it today was coined by an IBM computer science researcher, Hans Peter Luhn, in 1958, who wrote a paper in the IBM Systems journal titled A Business Intelligence System as a specific process in data science. In the Objectives and principles section of his paper, Luhn defines the business as “a collection of activities carried on for whatever purpose, be it science, technology, commerce, industry, law, government, defense, et cetera.” and an intelligence system as “the communication facility serving the conduct of a business (in the broad sense)”. Then he refers to Webster’s dictionary’s definition of the word Intelligence as

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It was national news when Deion Sanders was hired last week as the head coach of Colorado University’s struggling football team and college football will never be the same. “Prime Time” Deion lit up the media with his press conference announcing his new coaching job and his first meeting with the current University of Colorado football team.

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Marketing Podcast with Tom Peters

Tom Peters, a guest on the Duct Tape Marketing podcastIn this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interview Tom Peters. Tom is coauthor of In Search of Excellence—the book that changed the way the world does business and is often tagged as the best business book ever. Twenty books and forty years later, Tom is still at the forefront of the “management guru industry” he single-handedly invented. He’s out with yet another co-authored book with Nancye Green called — Tom Peters’ Compact Guide to Excellence.

Questions I ask Tom Peters:

  • [2:53] Do you spot trends or destroy them?
  • [5:51] This book that you’ve recently written is very compact — is that part of the message?
  • [7:33] Why was design such a crucial element of this book?
  • [10:16] Do you think great design helps you deliver a great message in a lot fewer words?
  • [12:41] What was your process for creating this
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Thin Reports in Power BI

Shared Datasets have been around for quite a while now. In June 2019, Microsoft announced a new feature called Shared and Certified Datasets with the mindset of supporting enterprise-grade BI within the Power BI ecosystem. In essence, the shared dataset feature allows organisations to have a single source of truth across the organisation serving many reports.

A Thin Report is a report that connects to an existing dataset on Power BI Service using the Connect Live connectivity mode. So, we basically have multiple reports connected to a single dataset. Now that we know what a thin report is, let’s see why it is best practice to follow this approach.

Prior to the Shared and Certified Datasets announcement, we used to create separate reports in Power BI Desktop and publish those reports into Power BI Service. This approach had many disadvantages, such as:

  • Having many disparate islands of data instead of
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The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) will auction a prime waterfront residential and commercial site on the edge of Singapore’s Marina Bay financial district amid surging property demand in the city-state.

The 12,245-square-meter plot at Marina Gardens Lane—overlooking the Marina Reservoir and the Strait of Singapore—can be developed into a residential condominium project with up to 790 apartment units and commercial space at the ground level, the URA said on Monday. The tender for the property will close in June 2023.

Based on the allowable gross floor area of 68,573 square meters, the site could attract bids between S$1.07 billion ($790 million) and S$1.15 billion, according to estimates by real estate broker OrangTee & Tie.

“We expect developers to show keen interest in the plot as it is

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