Where Are The Wise Men?

My workplace has inflicted all of us with Oracle. Not only that but the company’s standard SQL IDE tool is horrid, IMHO. But I was using, wishing I had something better.

Today I saw an entry for SqlPlus mode on the Emacs Wiki RSS feed. I had some time this afternoon to install [...]

I’ve been hearing good things about distributed source control and I decided to give it a shot. When I first attempted Mercurial (Hg, as I will continue to call it) I knew that it was going to be a keeper. And it has been.

Maybe it’s because I’m impatient, but the QuickStart is where [...]

Friday night was my first night on the Citizen’s Patrol. It’s really not that big of a deal — we started at 10pm and quite at about 12:45am or so. I didn’t know the other guy well, but he drove and I kept the paperwork. We drove around and around our neighborhood. [...]

If you follow my delicious bookmarks you have probably noticed a lot of bookmarks on Drupal.. I’ve chosen Drupal for the next step of the Secret Project.

Why Drupal? It’s well supported and documented, it has really nice modules, and it’s permissions system seems perfect what what we are trying to do. [...]

In lieu of a real post, here are some recent books I have read and my opinions about them:

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris. I’m not sure a biography can get better than this. It helps that TR was an extraordinary individual and a wonderful patriot. This book starts at Teddy’s [...]

Since my meeting got out early, I can finally wax a little about one of my pet peeves — Daylight Savings time. Or, actually, the time changes that come with it.Maybe it is because it was a busy weekend, or maybe because “falling back” was later this year, but I can’t seem to get adjusted.  [...]

This is one of those posts where I just utter some random things that is going on. This is really just so I only have to make one post instead of a bunch of little posts.

I had the flu last week and then it turned into a cold. Oh goodie. I’m finally [...]