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It must be the week for it; Mike A., an older database administrator and Visual Basic programmer for Naturelinks suffered one last week and is gradually in the process of retiring. So Naturelinks have called me up to slowly take over his functions; which means I have to (re-)learn MS-SQL Server and learn Visual Basic for Applications. Help! I'm becoming a VBA coder! Just as well it's with databases. Call me nuts, but I actually like databases. Fortunately I just also landed the task to rebuild and expand the T3 Program website (I know there are car fans on my flist).
The other heart attack was a person a lot closer to home; Peter Abrehart of the Melbourne Unitarian Church, whom I've been very good friends with for some years now. He 'died' three times on the way to hospital and is currently in critical, and is being kept in an ice-bed. Peter isn't exactly old, although he hardly has a great constitution. Peter is the former organiser for the Church, a committee member of some years standing, our registered celebrant and convenor of the philosophy classes. If I were the praying sort I'd be busy making appeals, sacrifices etc at the moment.
Last Sunday, I gave my presentation on The Story of Francis David and King John Sigusmund which was well attended and well received. Further, I have also finished my notes on the presentation to Securecon on Cisco Router Security (PDF file) as part of a mini-first edition of Red Friday for 2006. Also on-topic Linux Users of Victoria are organizing an 'Installfest' in three weeks time - in Ballarat - which will be the first regional event of its kind.
In my entire life in online discussions I have discovered that Objectivists are (almost) invariably extremely rude, inflexible and quite cultish. They seem to think there is something sophisticated in the statement "A is A", and can't really go beyond that (nor do they understand the internal contradictions in such naive set theory). Recently I've had fun teasing a couple on nz.politics about the unfortunate empirical reality of bosons (fascinating critters - multiple instances can occupy the same quantum state simultaneously). If anyone has some more Objectivist-teasing literature they are greatfully received.
Oh, take a look at these two photos. Franz Josef Glacier, 1939 and Franz Josef Glacier, 2006. A slight contrast.
The other heart attack was a person a lot closer to home; Peter Abrehart of the Melbourne Unitarian Church, whom I've been very good friends with for some years now. He 'died' three times on the way to hospital and is currently in critical, and is being kept in an ice-bed. Peter isn't exactly old, although he hardly has a great constitution. Peter is the former organiser for the Church, a committee member of some years standing, our registered celebrant and convenor of the philosophy classes. If I were the praying sort I'd be busy making appeals, sacrifices etc at the moment.
Last Sunday, I gave my presentation on The Story of Francis David and King John Sigusmund which was well attended and well received. Further, I have also finished my notes on the presentation to Securecon on Cisco Router Security (PDF file) as part of a mini-first edition of Red Friday for 2006. Also on-topic Linux Users of Victoria are organizing an 'Installfest' in three weeks time - in Ballarat - which will be the first regional event of its kind.
In my entire life in online discussions I have discovered that Objectivists are (almost) invariably extremely rude, inflexible and quite cultish. They seem to think there is something sophisticated in the statement "A is A", and can't really go beyond that (nor do they understand the internal contradictions in such naive set theory). Recently I've had fun teasing a couple on nz.politics about the unfortunate empirical reality of bosons (fascinating critters - multiple instances can occupy the same quantum state simultaneously). If anyone has some more Objectivist-teasing literature they are greatfully received.
Oh, take a look at these two photos. Franz Josef Glacier, 1939 and Franz Josef Glacier, 2006. A slight contrast.
