Andy Wins the Dice Tech Challenge

Thank you SGL readers for taking the time to vote for Andrew West in the Dice Tech Challenge.  In the latest challenge in which Andy wrote a web application for tracking and displaying the locations of satellites as they orbit the earth, he has taken first place!  He now as one victory and one fourth …

July 10, 2008: Looking for Pavilion Baptist School

We started really trying to get everyone set up with Pavilion Baptist School email addresses yesterday.  So far there are less than ten of us able to get email from the PBS addresses.  Those of us who have found each other are few and far between.  I think that my class, the class of 1994, …

Choosing a Linux Distro in the Enterprise

Linux is popular in big business today. No longer, and not for a long time now, has Linux been the purview of the geek community but it is a solid, core piece of today’s mainstream IT infrastructure. That being said, Linux is still plagued by confusion over its plethora of distributions. This being the case …

July 9, 2008: Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin

I was reading an interesting article today about Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, England, United Kingdom.  Ashdown Forest is popularly known as the forest containing the famous Hundred Acre Wood where Christopher Robin [Milne] would go to play with his friends Winnie-the-Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet, Kanga, Roo, Owl, et. al.   During the writing of the Winnie-the-Pooh …

July 8, 2008: The Baby Stuff Starts

I managed to get a bit more sleep last night.  We went to bed around eleven and I listen to half an hour of a talk from the SuperNova conference and then went to sleep.  it was a bit interesting because the talk that I listened to was discussing technological innovation in the Mohawk Valley …