"Guam NOT a sex capital"

This is kind of funny. The fact that it’s news and that it’s under discussion negates the assertion. And from reading the article it sounds like their trying to find ways to harass the massage parlors in order to keep them hidden from view. They are NOT attempting to find a way to get rid of them. If they did that, it might actually cut down on tourism (and that would be bad).

my new wiki

I’ve set up (another) new wiki. I kinda like this one. It has some password controls, but I’ve set it up so that people who are paying attention can contribute. (This probably means that nobody will contribute.)

Hopefully I can use this to gather/share info that’s not really blog-ish.

The other thing I’m investigating is using the “blog feature” within the wiki. It seems like the RSS is busted, but he “diary page” thing works.

It’s an installation of OddMuse.

new look

I really waste too much time fooling with the look of my blog.

the Sci Fi Channel wrecked my books

Yup. I saw the thing on SciFi and was pretty disappointed. It was very confusing since I read the books (a long time ago). I realized that the got Ged’s color wrong, but I didn’t realize (until reading the authors rant, the link of this blog entry) how much it meant, and how wrong they got it. I just knew that the story was completely mixed up.

Anyway, it really is a bummer that they ruined a great story.

On a related note, I wanted to pick up new copies of the books, but they were $14 each (paperback!) at Shmorders, so I did NOT get them. I’ll keep looking in used bookstores or order them online for a reasonable price.

TomPaine.com says Kerry Won

Scary.

The simple solution is that the media should report the number of omitted/uncounted votes. How is it that the media have been so co-opted that they do not report for the benefit of the people, but merely parrot the powers-that-be?

At this point it seems that the founding fathers failed.

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…

I could say

it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government

But that would be treason.

Shades of Purple

I’m not sure what it means, but it certainly looks interesting.

(Found at Kim’s place.)

GTD application

I got the book (Getting Things Done aka GTD). It hasn’t helped me yet because I haven’t read much of it. I think what I need is the Things Getting Done method, because I can’t manage to get step 0 of Getting Things Done done.

Bahia’s b-day

Bahia had a great b-day party over at Anees’s house. The only bummer was that it was too windy for the bouncer so the setup guys left w/o setting it up.

I got 144 balloons and a balloon pump. We didn’t blow them all up, but there were many balloons.

There were many people as well. The local persian contingent was there since it was a double b-day party. It was Anees’s b-day too.

A grand time was had by all.

crisis

Last week while I was in Berkeley my database server decided it had worked hard/long enough. I tried to bring it back to life by exporting/importing all the data. That took about 24 hrs to do the import. No go.

I decided to port the thing to postgres. I managed to create the data model from the exported scripts from the old db pretty easily. Then I spent several hours fixing the exported data so that I could use the \COPY in postgres to load it. Ironically it took about 15 minutes to import the data into postgres.

Then I fixed all the date math and sequences and other twiddly things.

After all that it seemed that the postgres server was not happy. The process size would balloon and the webserver would lock up. It seems that vacuum analyze has solved the problem.

Well, I found that somebody DOES read this blog. Toni liked my last post.

Went and saw Team America World Police (or whatever it’s called). It was gross and disturbing. (That was expected.) There certainly were some clever bits, or perhaps the whole thing was clever. I just don’t know that it was actually worthwhile. I have no desire to see it again, nor would I encourage anyone to see it.

Chipotle for lunch. Planning to do In-N-Out for dinner and check out this cool distributed VR game that Yoshi and Atoka are hooked on.

Started reading a bit of Tales of the Oak Table. This was recommended by a DBA consultant that gave us a one day session. It’s pretty interesting. It’s surprising to read actual *stories* that involve Oracle.

Oh yeah, Toni gave me links to her latest galleries: here and here.