Working in the computer world, as I have for the last 13 years, and specifically within the world of software development, one becomes familiar with a subculture of people whose notoriety is limited to hardened geeks. These people have affected (usually for the better) the world of computer science in positive ways, sometimes revolutionizing entire…
“Thank you. Good night. Whoo-hoo!” strausmouse will know where that comes from.
I have decided to build a house, and I have Doug and Rachel (and Ruby and Carson) to thank for it. Doug, who works in the home loan industry has made this incredibly easy for me, supplying me with everything I need to get the job done, with absolutely no paperwork.
Over the weekend, and this evening, I’ve been working away at getting my book collection and reading databases converted from their old formats into a normalized MySQL database. This has been done and the database was successfully imported into my instance of MySQL with my ISP. The next step is to write the code to…
Lots of mail today when I got home from work. First, the March issue of ANALOG, which had a great essay by Stanley Schmidt on “New Writers”. (Also mentioned in the “In Times to Come” section is a new story by mabfan in the April 2007 issue.) Then there were holiday cards. From Brittany, Meagan…
Yesterday, while eating lunch, I got around to reading the article in SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN “What Is A Planet”, by Steven Soter. The article tries to address the rationale for the new definition of a planet, and why Pluto no longer meets that definition. I can’t say that I disagree with the definition as presented. The…
Up at 4:30 and into the gym by 5:50 AM for my cardio workout. I was on a different elliptical machine and my heart rate was higher on that machine than the machine I usually use and it makes me wonder if one of the machines is miscalibratated. I did 40 minutes, burning 504 calories…
Today is my free day–no workouts and I can eat whatever I want. I slept in until 9 AM, which is late for me and then I had a quick breakfast and headed out to the grocery store to do some shopping. Since then, I have been working on the book collection and reading database…
I got to the gym around 4:15 this afternoon and it was pretty empty. Even the weight room was empty, which was nice for a change (especially in that weight room, which isn’t nearly as nice as the one that I usually go to by work). I had a pretty good workout, but some soreness…
Up just after 8 AM and breakfast. Then I started on the conversion and migration of my book collection and reading lists databases from Booxter/MySQL on my local machine, to the instance of MySQL I now have through my ISP and I have been working on that most of the day thus far, making some…