I finally got around to loading up photos on Flickr from my recent international trips, so if you would like to see what catches my eye as I...

I have decided to keep track of the places I've visited around the world, focusing primarily on those locations outside the United State...

Oscillococcinum - a strange name for a very wonderful medicine! I just spent a week in Latin America, performing (it does seem these days th...

AP = Associated Press AP is one of the major news content providers to newspapers, websites, etc. In April 2007, Tom Curley, AP president an...

I can still remember many years ago when, after I sat through a "blockbuster" (and quite dull) Schwarznegger movie with an enormou...

I was in Las Vegas (Mandalay Bay Hotel and Convention Center) for the Collaborate07 Oracle User Group (s) conference. As usual, a very surre...

What's the point? Sometimes you need to be able keep track of strings (names of some sort, usually) that you have used, so you do not us...

This is a great country. I am very lucky to have been born where I was, when I was. This fact was driven home to me very forcefully tonite b...

About Qusefuls A Quseful is a Quick and Useful (as opposed to Quick and Dirty) tip on now to write programs in the Oracle PL/SQL language m...

As I write this post, I am flying at 33000 feet in a Boeing 777, heading back home after two weeks in Europe (Copenhagen, Zurich, Vilnius, A...

I don't know what you call it. Steven's Fortune Cookie text? Pompously presumptuous meanderings? Well, nobody's going to force y...

Subject: A fine visit to Zurich I am now en route from Zurich to Vilnius, Lithuania -- the third stop on my two week "Best of PL/S...

I finally got around to watching Borat . I'd been putting it off, because the little bit I'd read and seen about it disturbed me. Ma...

A long, long time ago, I was a college student. In 1976, I entered the University of Rochester extremely enthused about mathematics. I took ...

Let's see...it's Tuesday, so this must be Boston. Yes, another posting on how to make one's travel life more ergnomic. That is, ...

I was searching my hard drive for some articles I was sure I had already written (see? This is what happens when you write compulsively. You...

I probably spend upwards of 6 hours a day (and certainly sometimes more) actually sitting at my workstation, and forcing my body into unnatu...

I have noticed that over the years as I spend more and more of my time holding forth (teaching classes, writing, doing presentations and sem...

I really like to use reason - to be logical about things. Of course, that should come as no great surprise; logic is a critical factor of su...

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