http://www.dallasmarks.org/blog Documenting my exploits, daring and mundane, with SAP BusinessObjects Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:27:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dallasmarks/bobj/~3/2ioZzVEAs70/ http://www.dallasmarks.org/blog/2012/01/free-speech/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:00:20 +0000 Dallas Marks http://www.dallasmarks.org/blog/?p=3096 What does this have to do with BI? Absolutely nothing. 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