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Indianapolis Museum of Art has the best dashboard ever. If you're a happy mac user and working with business intelligence, you'll want to make dashboards like this! (Thank you DashboardSpy for the link)

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Time Machine included in Leopard backs up your ~/Library/Caches unless you explicitly ask it not to. Just something to make a choice about when setting up your hourly backups. I do my backups to a remote disk, so I certainly would not like to every hour have my last hour of browsing backuped. ;-)

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The one thing I don't get with showers is why there always is water left in them. I mean, I get the physics of it, I just don't understand why I can't just press a little lever on the shower battery and make the remaining water flow out in the drain. Then I can be sure that no water will slowly go out of my shower and make a damp bathroom, chalk stains or grow bacteria after I'm done showering.

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I don't know if this is bash or an OS X feature, but nonetheless: today I discovered that there's tab-completion that takes .ssh/config into account! I on-instinct did a tab after writing part of the hostname I wanted and (boom!) there it was, auto-completed with a colon. So to SSH to my mini I did "ssh mi" and go "scp mini:". If this is the bash-guys or the darwin guys, I don't know, I hope to find out. Nonetheless: a big thank-you! :-)

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What bugs me very much about working with KPIs in PerformancePoint's Dashboard is that you cannot do simple calculations. For instance, I have a sales cube that has the measures unit cost and price the unit was sold for. I would like to say that a loss (price/cost < 1) makes the KPI red, a <20% margin makes it yellow and >=20% is green. In Excel this would be trivial: choose the price column, type '/' and choose the cost column: voila, you've got your calculation. Not so with Dashboard. As Rex Parker from Microsoft writes in the PerformancePoint Team Blog you'll have to write an MDX query. I don't believe MDX is for the average business person that PerformancePoint Dashboard is ...

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