May 25 2008
Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerI was supposed to read Into Thin Air when I was a junior in high school, as one of a tripartite summer/fall curriculum about Man vs. Nature themes: the other two books were Junger’s…
May 16 2008
My sister’s baby girl, Isabella, was born at 9:43am this morning. 7lbs, 6oz., 20 inches long.
It should almost go without saying that young Bella is getting one of these from her soon-to-be-favorite uncle.
For no particular reason, here’s a picture:
May 03 2008
Apr 29 2008
Eh. It’s good, I suppose, and I’m sure its much-vaunted performance is there, but this is very much a service pack dealing with O/S guts, and not a massive feature pack a la SP2. I can’t immediately tell any difference.
In other news, Hardy Heron is released! And its software is already…
Apr 17 2008
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 Education, mostly Banner users. It’s a markedly different kind of…
Apr 13 2008
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 time attending a Summit (pity I didn’t go when it…
Apr 11 2008
I’ll be at the Sungard Summit in sunny Anaheim from Saturday, 12 April through Wednesday, 16 April.
Posting might be light.
Mar 12 2008
Semantic Classes has been downloaded 79 times.
My Post Classes plugin from yesterday has morphed into the much fuller Semantic Classes plugin. For a full description/documentation, see its project page.
In brief, the plugin is a combination of modified code from Scott Wallick’s Sandbox and some coding of my own.…