Warning: this article is basically a rant and an appeal for mercy on my eyes. I don't know when this happened, but somebody at some point of time made a concious decision. "I think I'll pull together some information that's tabular and put it in an Excel spreadsheet." I guess that wasn't too horrible an initial thought until the information act...

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This is the title of an old song from the Average White Band. (I know, I'm showing some age because some of you reading this won't know either the band or the song.) I'm using the title to kick off this particular article to address something that we all experience but sometimes don't talk about: failure. Sure, everyone says failure is not an opti...

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