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$1.29 ???

Posted in Life, tagged , , on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

So while I’m truly enjoying the newfound strength of the US dollar (trading at 1.29 CDN today), I can’t truly understand WHY. I had thought (prayed) some time ago that the coming of the election and the imminent departure of George W and his drunken sailor spending practices might have some sort of positive impact [...]

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Oracle SQL Developer – now does data modeling too.

Posted in WORK WORK WORK, tagged , , , , on October 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve not done any serious data modeling for a while but now having a need to better understand the sysman schema underlying Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control I was about to fire up Embarcadero’s ER Studio and reverse engineer this puppy when I happened to notice that Oracle now has an ‘early adopters’ release of [...]

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Political stats to ponder.

Posted in Life, tagged , , , on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Watching Dan Rather Reports on HDNet this evening, Dan had an interview with Nate Silver of Chicago who brings baseball statistics to the presidential campaign over at fivethirtyeight.com. There is quite a bit of material to look at over there but basically it’s a melding pot of all the polls taken every day. Apparently there [...]

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Radomski – bigger than Jesus?

Posted in Life, tagged , , on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

So my cubemate Mike Radomski is listed as the 41st fastest growing blog on wordpress as of  the 16th of October just ahead of Jesus!!!!
Strangly enough I never show up on these things. I guess my ‘message’ is just too freaking radical for these sheep to notice.
Read on dear reader and ride the wave of [...]

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Calling Elections – mathematical wizardry???

Posted in Life, tagged , , , on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

So I was sitting in my abode, enjoying the (largely unnecessary) Canadian federal election – assuming that I was in for a couple of hours of  info-tainment.
Polls closed at 9pm and numbers from poling stations started scrolling across the bottom of the screen.  Lots of other pretty graphics elsewhere by the way.
Anyways, preliminary numbers with [...]

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Canadian Election looming

Posted in Life, tagged , , on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

With all the attention being paid to the US economy and the US election I thought I’d pipe up that Canada is facing a federal election in the coming weeks.
Rick Mercer did a wonderful job of capturing the essence of all of our candidates in a simple 1 minute ‘advert’ – enjoy
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Colour Challenged?

Posted in Life, WORK WORK WORK, tagged , on October 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »

So I often have a need to mix up some colours that are complementary for either some graphic I’m creating (usually explaining some geek computer stuff) or for content for our wiki (atlassians confluence). I’ve used visibone’s website before but keep forgetting it’s address so I’ll post it here. An elegantly simply tool you click [...]

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