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Muddling through the interwebs, as I do every day, I came across a few interesting thoughts on personal development, “Business-2.0,” and blog categorization.

Starting with the last element, is the addition of a “Thoughts” category.  A good place to drop half-formed ideas, random thoughts, and things that just don’t fit elsewhere yet deserve better than ‘Uncategorized.’  I guess this post is one of those “Thoughts.”

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While working on some code recently, I noticed a preponderance — neigh, an outright overabundance — of swith/case logic blocks to control content.  What’s worse is that the input variable to the switch block happened to be the value of a specific hash key, which got me to thinking — what is the purpose of a switch/case block, after all?

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