The Astronomy of Halloween

I just discovered that tomorrow is one of four "cross-quarter" days on the solar calendar. Read more at this link, The Astronomy of Halloween

Halloween means more than just a day for costumes and candy corn. It's the halfway point between the autumnal equinox and winter solstice, the last of four "cross-quarter" days on the solar calendar.

I forgot why I forget ...

While browsing SlashDot, I found this quote from Steven Wright

"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time."

Motley Fool's CAPS

I tried the web site mention in this link, Motley Fool's CAPS software last night.

It did not take long to create my account on the site http://caps.fool.com/. I have been following a few different stocks (each pays a quarterly dividend) for several months.

I entered those stocks along with my best guess as to how they will perform for the next few weeks. I checked back today after the market closed to see that my net worth had increased today.

15 best practices for pureXML performance in DB2 9

Here is a new document written by Matthias Nicola about XML performance using IBM's DB2 version 9.

DB2 9 introduces pureXML support, which means that XML data is stored and queried in its inherent hierarchical format. To query XML data, DB2 offers two languages, SQL/XML and XQuery. Additionally, DB2 9 has sophisticated XML indexing capabilities and support for XML Schema validation. While most existing performance guidelines for DB2 also apply to XML data, this article provides additional XML-specific performance tips.

Borrowed from my Google home page ...

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
- Henry Cate VII