Just a quick note on Name Calculations in SSAS, they need to be written in whatever SQL dialect the underlying DB engine (probably MS-SQL) understands. I wanted to make a Sales Margin calculation, and to avoid a Divide by Zero where sale price was zero, my code for this was:
<br /> CASE<br /> WHEN Sale<>0 THEN (Sale-Cost)/Sale<br /> ELSE 0<br /> END<br />
Never before have I needed four lines to do a simple IF.

Reading more in The Dashboard Spy I found this great table of questions users ask and how you should answer them when it comes to designing dashboard:

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These instructions are a great 5 minute guide to using iTunes at work. My mini at home already has SSH access enabled, so fire up Putty, make a tunnel, install the helper app and Boom! You’ve got music at work

This is just the weirdest. Not three minutes ago my Norwegian mobile phone that I haven’t had turned on since christmas suddenly turned itself on, and just a second thereafter my smoke alarm went bananas. I can smell no smoke, no smoke outside, no smoke in the entrance, not anywhere. What’s going on? Normally I would just assume it malfunctioned, but my mobile phone turned itself on! It shouldn’t be able to do that??

One of my pet project has been FrontRow and using my mini with an Elgato Hybrid and EyeTV as a media centre. At the moment its very quirky since there isn’t much info on making FrontRow plugins, or so I thought. Yesterday I read about PyeTV, an EyeTV integration for FrontRow written in Python using FrontPython. Jay! I love Python! And all this while I had been betting to read about it at Alan’s blog. But he got a girl, so jay for him as well. I’m looking forward to having some time on my hands to use FrontPython and see if I can put together a SNES launcher from FrontRow, integrated with DarwiinRemote. Check out Plugin101 for FrontPython on how to get started. Now, is anyone working on making a clone of the YouTube support that AppleTV has for FrontRow? BTW, check out Sapphire Browser that seems to have started it all