Saturday, June 10, 2006

BLSF

Well... not so long ago I got skyped by Jonx asking for help troubleshooting setup problem he was having with a web site he was setting up.

A web site he was setting up for Tracy.

A web site for the Black Lawyers Student Forum for which Tracy is the social development officer.

Yup, even though she is not black - unless being a woman makes you black?

Check out the web site the two of them put together. Tracy tells me that that there is still quite a bit of work she is going to do with setting up after she finishes her exams. But it looks pretty good to me already - Jonx has done a marvelous design!

Oh.. and check out the human clock website - or jump straight to the clock itself. Hilarious!

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

This may not mean a lot to you...


OracleInstalledSnapshot
Originally uploaded by ilanpillemer.
...but it means a great deal to me!

It shows that I have successfully installed an Oracle 10g database on a linux operating system.

I have been working on getting this running over the last couple of days. Now that I have done this I can start working on understanding the ins and outs of this latest version of the Oracle database so that in a few months time I can write the exam and upgrade my qualification from Oracle 9 OCP to Oracle 10 OCP as well.

And it is very important that I learn these skills on Linux. I have already built the basic Oracle skills in a Windows environment and it is now time that I develop the same skill and confidence in the more sophisticated environment of Linux. Since all the major database always run on a POSIX (or a mainframe which is similar) environment; only once I have mastered Oracle in this environment will I feel that I have Oracle DBA skills under my belt.

Finally, now that I have Oracle set up on Linux the basic steps are done; the spaceship has landed; and I can try do a little flying.

This makes me happy.

later...

...

.. It's in words that the magic is -- Abracadabra, Open Sesame, and the rest -- but the magic words in one story aren't magical in the next. The real magic is to understand which words work, and when, and for what; the trick is to learn the trick. ... And those words are made from the letters of our alphabet: a couple-dozen squiggles we can draw with the pen. This is the key! And the treasure, too, if we can only get our hands on it! It's as if - as if the key to the treasure is the treasure! ------- John Barth, Chimera