Contents tagged with Current Events
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A trip down memory lane, courtesy of Larry Ellison
The news that Larry Ellison is planning a hostile takeover of PeopleSoft caused Mike Sax to reminisce:
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Happy Mother's Day!
Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there!
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Been out for a while...
As I'm guessing some of you might have noticed, I've been absent from the blog world for a while. As Julia pointed out, this is because a couple of weeks ago, my son was born. His name is Joseph Andrew, and as one would expect, he's been taking up quite a lot of his daddy's time and attention of late. So if my blog entries are a little few and far between for a while, now you know why. :-)
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Dedication? How about supply and demand?
Keith Pleas blogged about the plight of UAL pilots, given the trouble that the industry is in:
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Wrox
I know I'm not the first to comment on the rumors that Wrox may be going under, but one of the first things I thought of is all of the folks that I've met who work for Wrox, and who depend on them for their livelihood. Authors like Alex Homer, Dave Sussman, and Rocky Lhotka, to name just a few, were the main reason that Wrox became such a prominent name in the tech book market.
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It begins...
The latest snowstorm to hit the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. is now in full swing. It's some of the heaviest snow I've seen all winter (which is actually saying something this winter). I have to admit, that it looks pretty right now, but that doesn't make me any more enthusiastic about the shoveling I'm going to have to do tomorrow...ARGH!!!
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More Snow!?!?!
As anyone who's lived in or around Washington, DC can tell you...we've had a heck of a winter this year. Yes, I know people in more northern climes have it worse on a regular basis, but you're prepared for it. We got 2 feet of snow last week, which shut down schools for the whole week.
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Oh, Great! Another scam...
So I get a phone call from a nice lady who identifies herself as a transfer notification agent for the pseudo-official sounding Domain Support Group. She said she was calling to let me know about "changes on the Internet that could affect" my domain name.