While surfing the 'Net one day, I found this quote and image

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd

Miguel Cervantes
http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/eLearning/GreatIdeas/QuixoteMap.jpg

A new sport for Paris Hilton

While shopping at the local mall on Black Friday, I noticed a young man wearing a sweatshirt with

Varsity Hurling

on the front. I immediately thought that Paris Hilton would be well qualified to be on that team.

After reading/skimming some of the ideas presented in this article, Lessons from Project Management: 101 ways to organize your life, I decided that I should try harder to post more stuff to this blog.

Items #56 through #59 (in the Personal Organization section) suggests keeping a daily journal to jot down the day's hi- and lo-points. After a few days/entries I should pause to reflect upon what I had written and to rate my performance on the accomplishments or failures. I need to use a daily list of tasks/to do items. Once I complete a tasks, I should cross it off the list. With practice, I should improve the task completion percentage.

Thanksgiving -- a co-worker sent this to me ...

What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving.

– Erma Bombeck

Photo Published Via Mobile Phone

Here is a photo I took last May during a trip to southern Utah and northern Arizona.

I sent it from a mobile phone using the new (to me) interface that Google recently made available.

think again!

After a three month absence, one of my favorite sites, think again! has returned. The site contains many

"seductive math problems for the modern mind"

.

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

MoPhos

Check out this link to learn more about modern lifestyle in Phoenix, AZ. Modern Phoenix is a neighborhood network featuring information and photos of art and architecture in the Valley of the Sun.

Tips for keeping Maven projects portable

A recent posting on the DevX.com site asks " How portable is your Java project? How many modifications must be made to a build environment in order to produce a successful artifact?"

Word order ...

I was listening to an American football game a few days ago. One of the announcers made some comment about " ... an awful lot of players ... ". This made me wonder what would happen if he had talked about " ... a lot of awful players ... " instead.

Bucky's Bean Bag

The last two times I visited Prescott, I bought a bag of Whiskey Row coffee beans from Bucky's Bean Bag. This shop is located on fabled Whiskey Row. My co-workers and I enjoyed the coffee we made from the whole beans.

Arizona Coffee information

While stumbling around the Internet the other day, I found this interesting site about coffee. I live in Phoenix and I like good coffee. I hope to make good use of the information that Chris and others provide.

Link to Arizona Coffee

Word order ...

Many months ago after listening to a radio commercial for a local tire company, I began to ponder the difference between

• a wide variety of tires


• a variety of wide tires

Willie got busted again ...

According to a story on MSNBC, Willie Nelson and four others were issued misdemeanor citations for possession of narcotic mushrooms and marijuana.

Branching with cvs or subversion

Found these links while researching branching and tagging with cvs ...

• Link to Ish : Creating a subversion project with trunk, branch and tag directories…
  
• Link to Neeraj's Tech Scribbles: Creating a branch in CVS and using it from Eclipse
  
• Link to Jared's Weblog
  
• Link to CVS - Confluence
  
• Link to David Van den Brande's Weblog
  

DB2 News & Tips: 2006Q3 issue of DB2 Magazine available

DB2 News & Tips: 2006Q3 issue
of DB2 Magazine available