Author Archives: Robert

Made it through the mid-term

Posted on April 23, 2020 by Robert

Finally reached the halfway point in this tricky semester. We have been lucky to keep meeting in class as usual, except for our classmate who has not been able to come back from winter break in Macau. Don’t worry, we … Continue reading →

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Welcome back to the spring semester 2020!

Posted on February 28, 2020 by Robert

After an extra week of vacation (which we will have to pay back at the end of June), we have made it through the first week of the new semester. Welcome back everyone, and for our students/classmates who are still … Continue reading →

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Group on table joins

Posted on February 14, 2020 by Robert

This is one of the more confusing issues of table joins. To make it extra confusing, try an outer join: Select * from ta as a left outer join tb as b on a.key = b.key Both tables have duplicate … Continue reading →

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Happy Chinese New Year

Posted on February 11, 2020 by Robert

Even though it’s three weeks late, Happy year of the Rat! 恭喜! 恭喜!

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Merry Christmas!

Posted on December 25, 2019 by Robert

It’s not very cold in Taiwan, and Christmas is no longer a holiday here, but Merry Christmas to all, just the same. And for those of you who like countdowns, get ready to say goodbye to the 201Xs (unless you … Continue reading →

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jfkarc.info now online

Posted on December 9, 2019 by Robert

I now have a new website on the JFK Assassination Records Collection at jfkarc.info. All my future posts on the JFK ARC will go up there. The new site now includes all my previous posts on the ARC from this … Continue reading →

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Back online!

Posted on November 28, 2019 by Robert

The Warren is back after a two month break. The unintended pause was the result of a failed upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04. Yuck, what a mess! Thanks to Chi Nan University’s Computer Center, however, I am now up … Continue reading →

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Nosenko NBR: CIA files in the 2017-2018 ARC releases (Part 3)

Posted on June 24, 2019 by Robert

This post looks at the CIA records on Yuri Nosenko in the JFK Assassination Records Collection (ARC) that were designated “not believed relevant” (NBR). Over 2000 pages of these NBR documents on Nosenko were released by the National Archives and … Continue reading →

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“Not Believed Relevant”: CIA files in the 2017-2018 ARC releases (Part 2)

Posted on May 14, 2019 by Robert

This is Part 2 of a series of posts I am doing on CIA records in the ARC which were designated “not believed relevant” (NBR). This post corrects the NBR count for CIA documents given in Part I, examines the … Continue reading →

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“Not Believed Relevant”: CIA files in the 2017-2018 ARC releases (Part I)

Posted on May 5, 2019 by Robert

[This post was revised on 5/7/2019 to add the endnotes that I accidentally omitted when posting, and to fix a few typos. Unfortunately, the count of NBR documents is also slightly off, and will be revised in the next post.] … Continue reading →

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