The classroom computers at the Oracle training center run Red Hat Linux. All my years of playing with Linux at home are now paying off: I am perfectly comfortable with the environment here.
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Monthly Archives: November 2008
The Two Towers
I am spending the work week in Bloomington (southern suburb) at a class on the Oracle database management system. It is my first exposure to the product.
However, I do know the office complex. It is on the 8th floor of the 8000 W.84th building. I have often been to the 8300 building, where Oracle’s rival Microsoft has its local offices.
The Episcopal Church and Proposition 8
Doomsday
From Bad Astronomy
Irish phrase of the day
teasbhás na cruinne: heat death of the universe. Continue reading
Irish/English dictionaries
- Pota Focal is easy to use.
- Focal.ie is the place to go for technical terms. E.g. heteroscedasticity is heitrisceideastacht.
- From An Gael I learned that Dinneen’s Irish English Dictionary has been scanned and can now be accessed on-line.
Swordmaking
One of my fellow members of the OldTools List recently attended a Swordmaking class. There are pictures here. A minute with Google found this list of relevant links.
Longest lines ever!
…..In my experience of polling places (which goes back to 1972).
However, they were well-managed and there were no problems. I have voted and am now on my bus to work.
Prepared
I have worked completely through my local ballot for tomorrow. I have some idea of how to vote in every contested race. Not just the big ones in the news, but also for all the local and judicial candidates.
The extra hour
Note the time stamp. Most Americans just “fell back” and are getting an extra hour of sleep. A few are up because it is their job to provide essential services (e.g. police, firefighting) just like on other nights. A very few would be asleep, but are up precisely because of falling back. I am one of them.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 