Archive for April, 2008

Apr 18 2008

Friday Random Ten CLIV

The “Back in the Midwest” edition

Friday Random Ten

  1. The Ascent Of Everest - [How Lonely Sits The City! #03] Molotov
  2. Gabriel Fauré - [Requiem (Giulini, Philharmonia Orchestra) #03] Sanctus
  3. Extol - [Undeceived #02] Undeceived
  4. Apostle of Hustle - [The National Anthem of Nowhere #09] Fast Pony…

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Apr 17 2008

Adventures in California

I write today safely back in the Midwest after spending about 5 days in Anaheim, California (for which see my previous post). My purpose in California was the annual Sungard Summit, a very large gathering of customers of Sungard Higher…

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Apr 13 2008

Anaheim and other larks

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Yesterday, I flew to Anaheim, California, for the annual “Summit” conference for Banner users. It’s quite possibly the largest higher ed. conference in the nation (more than Educause), drawing about 8′000 attendees by Sungard’s measurements. This is my first…

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Apr 11 2008

Gone geekin’

I’ll be at the Sungard Summit in sunny Anaheim from Saturday, 12 April through Wednesday, 16 April.

Posting might be light.

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Apr 11 2008

Friday Random Ten CLIII

The “Why are there so many songs about rainbows?” edition

  1. Jason Mraz - [Live at Café Dachkammer #09] Rainbow Connection
  2. Everon - [Bridge #04] Travelling Shoes
  3. Nine Inch Nails - [Ghosts I-IV CD2 #16] Ghosts IV
  4. The Bad Plus - [Prog #07] Tom Sawyer
  5. Samuel…

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Apr 11 2008

Parents Fight Over Which Gang Toddler Should Join

I really wish this was an article from The Onion…. but no, it’s not.

On Saturday, Joseph Manzanares stormed into the Hollywood Video store where his girlfriend worked, threatened to kill her and knocked over several video displays and even a…

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Apr 07 2008

Broken Angels

Richard K. Morgan • Broken Angels Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan
Publisher: Del Ray
Year: 2004
Pages: 384
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What is 52 Books in 52 Weeks?
№31

I read Richard K. Morgan’s debut novel, Altered Carbon, earlier this year, and though my feelings on it were mixed, I gave it…

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Apr 06 2008

Coming soon: superfast internet

Great. Now expect the U.S. to be five years behind Sweden and Japan and most of the the other established countries in the world.

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Apr 04 2008

Fatuous criticisms of Linux

I love Jeff Atwood’s blog, and can even accept that he’s drank of the Microsoft Kool-Aid seemingly for both desktop and server because he’s a great writer and a great programmer.

But I admit to being troubled by his recent post.…

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