Tuesday

It is now Tuesday, and the weather has gone insane. Its not supposed to get past 65 here in Rochester, which is slightly unseasonably cold. But it is sunny, despite the dire predictions of mostly cloudy, so this is mostly a win.

I spent yesterday at work working on getting the item translations in place for one of our reports, which needs to go out in 23 languages. This involved pulling in data from an access database, and from the previous year's report and combining it all into one data table that the reports will drive in. In all? 2024 distinct pieces of text, put together in something like three hours. Last year, the same process would have taken us three days. I am FTW. Today, I'll work on getting the rest of the translations in place. And deal with another client who wants to swap out there X.509 certificate for one that won't be expiring. Fools!

Cam-wise, did a bunch of Mage stuff last night. I'm reasonably sure at least some of it will lead to posts sometime in the near future to netbardictales. As well as RP, which is awesome.

Tonight after work, drop jilliko off at her rehearsal and then go off to Aikido. Wednesday night is looking like some game work and, thus, computer time. Thursday is more Aikido and then it looks like I'll be running Forsaken on Friday.

(PS: Hey, LJ? Having a checkbox to "disable auto-formatting" is bad. Reverse that and make the checkbox "enable auto-formatting")

Multicore

So I get the SD Times free at work - I think they figure I'll buy all the products they're advertising. And I actually do skim through it - there's a lot of fluff and a lot of trend-following, but there's also some good stuff in there. It is, for instance, way more useful than Information Week has ever thought of being.

That said, this week's issue (or last week's issue, really I don't check my mailbox here enough) had a good counter-point editorial on multi-core processors.

What if multicore is all wrong?

Querying XML in a Tabular Format

Because I'm totally always forgetting this syntax and then having to scavenge through multiple sources to find it, you're all going to be subjected to more SQL.

( Target audience? What's that? Way more geeky than the average reader wants to read. )

Told ya.

(For the record? Posting this was a pain in the ass. I need a better editor.)

Beware the Burger King!

Aikido - Day 5 of 24

Its the first entry that isn't a factor of 24. Yaaaaaay!

I actually made it to Aikido today. This despite dinner and making the iPod play music again. Which was good, because I'm the week after next I won't be going at all - I'll have to try extra hard after that to make sure I pick it back up. Hopefully anyone actually reading this (is anyone actually reading this?) will be nice enough to poke me. Hopefully they'll also be nice enough not to poke me with knives.

Anyways. 'twasn't my best class ever. The throws they were doing were just a little to unfamiliar to me, just a little beyond what I'd done before. I kind of threw myself off with the first throw, which involved some sort of bizarre hand change in the middle that required one to wedge their hand between the uke's arm and yours, break your own hold, change the grip of the first hand and then proceed with the throw. The timing just felt weird.

The rest of the throws were simpler, but I guess I threw off my groove. It wasn't towards the end of class that I started to pick it up again - I just tried to concentrate on doing things slower until I picked it up.

Regardless, I felt good after class and now. In brighter news, I'm making it through roll practice without feeling like I might pop a lung. Yaay cardiovascular system!