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I walked Duff through the Stockades today. To commemorate the occasion, I took a photo of the two of us.  (I'm the cute one in the middle.)  He dinged early on, to 28.  It was fun helping him!

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James Gosling: on the Java Road

James Gosling: on the Java Road: "Java for FIRST Robotics Competition"

James Gosling came to town and all I got was this lousy blog post.

More American Workers Outsourcing Own Jobs Overseas | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

More American Workers Outsourcing Own Jobs Overseas | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Hilarious... but are they on to something?

What if Oracle bought Sun Microsystems? | Developer World - InfoWorld:

"So let's recap. In this final scenario, we have enterprise customers running applications written for an Oracle-managed language platform, running on an Oracle-branded application server, which communicates with an Oracle database on Oracle-branded servers that talk to Oracle-branded storage hardware running an Oracle filesystem on an Oracle OS.

Oh yeah, and Oracle would own MySQL."

A couple of weeks old, but a very good analysis of the Oracle-Sun merger.

We started our number port to ooma today. Despite the big outage Monday (which we didn't even notice) and the smaller outage on Tuesday, I still feel it is going to be a wise move going Internet-only. We'll still have our cellphones as backup, but ooma's call quality and premier services convinced me it was time to try something different. By my calculation, it'll take nine months of "no AT&T" to make up for ooma ($199), a UPS ($34.97 after tax) and the first year of premier services ($99.99), but after that, we'll be spending about $100 a year for a service that was costing more than $400. Sweet!

Celebrity Endorsements: Does Anyone Really Care? - HUMAN EVENTS

Celebrity Endorsements: Does Anyone Really Care? - HUMAN EVENTS: "Trust me, one’s view of the world isn’t any clearer from the back seat of a limo." - Pat Sajak

Montevallo, Alabama, native Robert Lightfoot Jr. becomes acting director at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center - al.com

Montevallo, Alabama, native Robert Lightfoot Jr. becomes acting director at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center - al.com

Amanda's cousin has been named Director!  Congratulations to him!

CADIE: Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity

CADIE: Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity

Google's annual roll-out.  This is the best one yet - better than Pidgeon Rank!