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Articles that don’t fit neatly into a category. May not necessarily be as career-focused as some of my other material.

Tron: Ares Release Date and What to Expect
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Tron: Ares Release Date and What to Expect

Dallas MarksApril 8, 2025January 3, 2026

Tron: Ares, the third installment of Disney’s Tron motion pictures, arrives in theaters on October 10, 2025.

Start With a Win!
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Start With a Win!

Dallas MarksJuly 16, 2021February 18, 2026

My wife is currently studying to be a real estate agent with RE/MAX so we’ve been discovering various real estate…

Investigating Active Directory Users and their Groups
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Investigating Active Directory Users and their Groups

Dallas MarksMay 20, 2021May 20, 2021

I’m not a Microsoft Windows administrator and I don’t play one on television, but sometimes I need the answer to…

Sheltering In Place
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Sheltering In Place

Dallas MarksApril 15, 2020February 25, 2026

I’ve been fortunate to have spent the last eight years working from home (WFH) for EV Technologies. So for the…

Apollo 11 and First Man
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Apollo 11 and First Man

Dallas MarksApril 10, 2020December 18, 2025

If you think sheltering in-place with your family is difficult, imagine spending nine days in a broom closet-sized hydrogen-powered death…

Mercury 13
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Mercury 13

Dallas MarksApril 27, 2018April 26, 2018

Mercury 13 is a Netflix documentary about 13 female aviators that were screened to be astronauts during the 1960’s space…

For the Love of Spock
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For the Love of Spock

Dallas MarksNovember 10, 2017November 10, 2017

A fascinating look at the actor that made an extra-terrestrial from a cancelled 1960’s TV series into a cultural icon.

The Last Man on the Moon
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The Last Man on the Moon

Dallas MarksOctober 27, 2017April 26, 2018

Gene Cernan lived an extraordinary life that’s captured in a beautiful documentary.

Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo
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Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo

Dallas MarksSeptember 1, 2017April 19, 2026

One small step for your remote control, but one giant leap for your Netflix queue.

Silicon Cowboys
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Silicon Cowboys

Dallas MarksJuly 12, 2017December 18, 2025

Compaq may no longer be in business but their impact is still felt in today’s PC marketplace.

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About Dallas Marks

Dallas Marks

Dallas Marks

As a cloud and analytics practitioner, author, instructional designer, and trainer, I help organizations harness the power of analytics in the cloud, on-premise, or hybrid. I prefer piano keyboards over computer keyboards when not blogging or tweeting about analytics.

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