We have all seen a Rube Goldberg machine. If you don’t know what one is, Wikipedia describes it as “a machine intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and over-complicated fashion”. Do a Google search on the term. You will see some truly amazing efforts for such simple tasks. I have been…
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We are in the midst of the information age. There are databases and datasets everywhere we go. One of the commissioners at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality addressed agency management and staff regarding the stockpile of information the agency collects by saying, “we are drowning in information but are thirsting for knowledge.” How does…
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I Prefer the Database When I was in college, I went to dinner with a group of friends to a steakhouse. Each friend ordered a steak, well-done. I was the last to order. When asked how I would like my steak, the group egged me on to have it rare because, me being a Texan,…
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