Kaisa's blog

februar 2006 - Posts

• I hate blobs

  Some data formats are just hopeless to work with. The last few weeks, I've had the "pleasure" of working with an Axapta database. (Microsoft Dynamics Axapta). More spesifically, working on accounts in Axapta. For some reason, this field looks Read More posted 22-02-2006 10:09 by kaisa | 0 Comments Filed Under: Reporting Services, IT in general

• Extreme geekness: MDX Limerick

  I found this new subgenre of fun poetry at Chris Webb's BI site: MDX Limericks. Chris' first limerick: WITH MEMBER [Date].[Day Name].[TODAY] AS 1 + [Date].[Day Name].[THURSDAY] SELECT [Average Rate] ON 0, [Date].[Date] ON 1 FROM [Direct Sales] Read More posted 21-02-2006 07:32 by kaisa | 0 Comments Filed Under: MDX and Analysis Services

• PP: Belgium says GO!

  Finally, on Valentine's Day, I got a call from my rheumatologist. The pharmaceutical company in Belgium had finally run the tests on the blood samples taken in November. This time they could also read the results, and all traces of Arava has left my Read More posted 19-02-2006 03:54 by kaisa | 1 Comments

• Changed my name

  Yvette at the innergeek website did a new take on Shakespeare the other day: "What's in a name? That which we call a geek By any other word would smell as l33t." -From Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2) [with liberties Read More posted 19-02-2006 03:22 by kaisa | 0 Comments Filed Under: Misc

• Using Windows Messenger and MSN Messenger on the same computer

  The last days I've had to help my mum sort out some problems with one of her computers. She's using my sister's laptop while my sister Trine is in India. My sister left her computer with her .NET passport tied to her Windows user account, which my mum Read More posted 19-02-2006 01:01 by kaisa | 0 Comments Filed Under: SharePoint, IT in general

• Blog from India

  No, unfortunately it's not me who is in India, but my sister and some of her friends. Their blogs can be accessed from http://blogs.spipp.net/. So far it's only my sister Trine who has started writing much, and I think it's great to read about her days. Read More posted 17-02-2006 01:27 by kaisa | 0 Comments Filed Under: Blogging and dotText, Travel

• Using non standard characters in report name causes Excel export to fail

  Today I realised that Reporting Services does have some issues with non standard characters - in some cases. The Norwegian alphabet includes 3 extra characters after Z: å, ø and ... æ. THese characters might cause some big problems in some Read More posted 09-02-2006 12:03 by kaisa | 0 Comments Filed Under: Reporting Services

• ClustrMaps - show your visitors

  My techie husband sent me a link to Jeff Alexander's post about ClustrMaps - a HTML based tool for showing where the visitors for your site is coming from. Following the links, I've created an account and added the map to my blog index. Will be interesting Read More posted 05-02-2006 01:04 by kaisa | 0 Comments Filed Under: Blogging and dotText

• Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0

  Today I attended a work shop on the new Microsoft (Dynamics) CRM with a local Microsoft representative. It looks sleek. The Outlook integration looks good. The web interface was a bit more funny though. I think tweaking the user interface for customization Read More posted 01-02-2006 10:38 by kaisa | 0 Comments Filed Under: IT in general

• Where, oh where, have the smart people gone? About Pink's Stupid Girls

  One of my favorite artists is Pink. From the first time I saw her pink hair and cool attitude in "There you go", I've really liked her. Some of the songs on her first album (mostly R&B style) are quite cheesy, but she has a lot of songs about Read More posted 01-02-2006 10:23 by kaisa | 0 Comments Filed Under: Music