Ross Goodman

Author: Ross Goodman

  • Edinburgh Charity Fashion Show

    I have just seen this link on the MND Scotland web site.
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  • A Song For Business Intelligence ?

    What song do you think best sums up Business Intelligence?
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  • Business Objects – Best Practice – Report Design

    Business Objects – Best Practice – Report Design

    The purpose of this document is to provide a description of what I consider to be best practice when designing a business intelligence report. I will also try to describe the reasoning behind the suggestion.
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  • Business Objects – Best Practice – Universe Design

    Business Objects – Best Practice – Universe Design

    The purpose of this document is to provide a description of what I consider to be best practice when designing a Business Objects Universe. We will also describe the reasoning behind the suggestion.
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  • Valentines Gift In Glasgow – Buckie Gift Pack

    My sister in law Lynne just sent me this:
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    Spotted this cheeky little gift set in Haddows, Copland Road, Govan last night – the guy at the counter says they sell like hot cakes!
    A bottle of Buckfast, 20 Mayfair and a packet of skins – you couldn’t make it up! BUCKY GIFT PACK ONLY £9.08

  • GTD and RTM – The Missing Link (Penny Drops)


    I’m a big fan of Remember The Milk (RTM) and David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD).
    The one concept that I have been missing in the whole process is how to set reminders for following up emails.
    I regularly use a waitingfor tag and a tag for each persons name but my habit of actually creating the task is not quite there yet.
    The habit is no longer needed now.
    I have “discovered” that from RTM | Settings | Info there is an “Inbox EMail Address”. For any e-mail I want to chase I simply BCC the message to this address and it creates a task in my inbox. The body of the message goes into a note attached to the task.
    All I have to do then is move it to the appropriate list and set any tags or due date.
    I would recommend using BCC, if anyone discovers your inbox e-mail address then they will be able to create tasks in your inbox too!

  • 2009 – Goal #1 – Completed !

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    Rather than setting resolutions I set myself goals this year.
    The first one of these was:
    “Jog For One Mile – No Stopping – No Pain”
    Tonight I managed just that.
    Next goal, complete the MND Scotland 10K Fun Run.
    I completed this last year but there was more walking than jogging, this year WILL be different.

  • MND Scotland

    MND Scotland
    As of today the “Scottish Motor Neurone Disease Association” have rebranded to become “MND Scotland”.
    Their new web site can be found here.

    New Identity for the Scottish Motor Neurone Disease Association
    The new name and logo reflect the organisation’s values by putting those affected by Motor Neurone Disease (MND) in Scotland first. The logo contains a blue ‘Cornflower’ icon that is easily recognisable and was chosen as it signifies hope for the future. The Cornflower is a hardy, wild flower native to Scotland and countries where it survives in the most challenging environments. The Cornflower reflects the resilience of people affected by MND – as they face up to the challenges of life.

  • New Year – New Fitness Regime

    No New Years Resolutions, just a revisiting of the fitness regime I started last year.
    It’s late so just a quick update.
    I have started week 1 of both One Hundred PushUps and Two Hundred SitUps.
    I have also had my first jog in over four months. I went back to my patented “lamp-post method”: jog for one lamp-post, walk for one. I managed to complete a mile in 20 minutes. I have suddenly remembered how much I love being out in the middle of the night. Watching a fox hunt in the field beside the road before I start.
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  • A Year In Retrospect

    Just a quick summary of my on-line presence this year.

    Twitter

    I have invested a lot of content to Twitter this year.
    This is primarily due to the convenience of the platform racking up almost 1200 updates in the year here.

    Flickr / Photography

    I can’t find a way to get stats for the year so here are my top five photos:
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    Car Crash Rescue 1
    Lightning 5
    Kelvingrove Heads 1
    Car Crash Rescue 2

    Web Site / Blog

    By far the most popular post on the site was the photos page here.
    Second most popular page is the “About Me” page here.
    As for the blog entries themselves they rank at:
    1 – Business Objects XI 3.0 New Features – Conditional Prompts
    2 – Crystal Xcelsius – Filtered Rows From A Filter Component
    3 – Modelling Change In Your Dimensions
    4 – Business Objects XI 3.0 New Features – Change Data Tracking
    5 – Dimensional Modelling – Facts
    As you can see here the site only really started getting traffic last January so that gives me 17300 page views.
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    Personal Stuff

    Obviously the biggest news of the year was the passing of my daughter Emma.
    Celebrating the Life of Emma Berry Goodman
    And the year ends on another low point with the passing of another member of my extended family.
    George Miller – Footballer | 1939 – 2008