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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2017.01.07

Another year, another extract-transform-load project. We're migrating the CRM at Cycle Toronto, and it's an interesting challenge. As always with membership databases, there's so much data cleansing to do. But it's also a crash course on how the non-profit does a lot of what it does.

rand()m quote

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

—Albert Einstein