http://www.flester.com/blog You can't have it both ways Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:46:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Shoveled out and ready for action! Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? Job 38:22, The Bible. http://www.flester.com/blog/2010/02/11/we-survived-the-blizzard-of-2010 Several important things happen on New Year's Day in Bible times. Today seems like a good day to point them out. It is worth thinking about which "New Year" we are speaking of. Today we have the new calendar year, but there is also the new fiscal year, the new ... http://www.flester.com/blog/2010/01/01/what-could-happen-its-new-years-day In which I find a quote from an unreliable source in a book by a normally reliable author and lose much confidence in the other material contained therein. I would be extremely hesitant to quote anything pithy or witty sounding from M. Muggeridge without pages of context around why it was ... http://www.flester.com/blog/2009/12/02/be-careful-whom-you-quote Here are some that are noteworthy and funny: Is it Christmas - http://isitchristmas.com - Funny as it tracks the timezones across the globe, really only has much to do on one day per year though. But that one day is coming up soon, so start checking in daily. ... http://www.flester.com/blog/2009/12/01/user-interface-design Autumn color. http://www.flester.com/blog/2009/11/19/boxwood-with-maple-frosting A recent tweet from my pal #eknock complaining about some juicy ORA-06550: line 1, column 7 reminded me of these error codes that an old-cgi script of min produces: Bad disktype code ORA-99xxx CTXUSER not enabled ORA-010xxx Flagellular misfire ORA-910xxx Nascent order lost code: ORA-82xxx Ferrule injector not found: ORA-14xxx Of course it's just a perl ... http://www.flester.com/blog/2009/10/17/special-error-codes Yesterday I attended the first-ever Hadoop World, sponsored by Cloudera and held in The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. I took an early Amtrak train up to the big city and a late train back that same night. The conference was well attended, over 500 big-data heads were there ... http://www.flester.com/blog/2009/10/04/hadoop-world-2009 And be it ever remembered that Christians are not members of a club, of a sect or of an association; they are members of a body, each connected with allo, and all connected by the fact of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit with the risen and glorified Head in ... http://www.flester.com/blog/2009/09/29/getting-rid-of-self Cindy and I went downtown to the Sculpture Garden of the National Gallery of Art for a concert in their series featuring local jazz artists. The weather was kind of doubtful that day and the concert was moved into the pavilion cafe. That looked like a bad decision during the ... http://www.flester.com/blog/2009/09/02/the-tom-williams-quintet Here is yesterday's haul of 100% organic home-grown raspberries. That is 7 lb 11 oz of pure deliciousness. [caption id="attachment_205" align="aligncenter" width="463" caption="raspberry harvest"][/caption] We have been getting a tremendous harvest from our little row of raspberries this year. http://www.flester.com/blog/2009/08/26/raspberries