working for a living

For now this is a bit of place holder, while I try and tie all these thoughts together, but here is a great talk on the value of work.  Just plain work

http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_jobs.html

Fuzzy Data

Viewing post on one of my favorite websites, Flowing Data, I came across an interesting post. 

The first is a ranking of food recipes being searched on the day before Thanksgivings.  It contains a set of 50 maps of the US, and each shows a trinary representation of frequency (below, average, above) of search.  What is interesting is how closely it relates to my expectations of what will be served on Thanksgiving.  I guess my family in mid-America (Missouri) is just normal, and for that I am thankful.

Healthy pain

Started working out a couple weeks of ago, walking every day. Yesterday, I started with trainer, and well, now I am must be getting healthier because boy do arms hurt. Walking, bike riding, and weights, are all parts of my daily life.

So for 7 continuous days making it to the gym, and 6 days without caffeine, also not part of the new me.

Finally Google

Thank you Google for a few things,
(1) I now have google voice
(2) Latitude is on my iphone
(3) The moon is on Google Earth
(4) and hopefully I'll be a beta tester for Google Wave

Just some tidbits

Just passing along some interesting tidbits I found this weekend, both web related.

(1) Sun is offering a free white paper on cloud computing.  It is, as expected a bit basis towards Sun w/ MySQL, but is does provide a good definition of what cloud computing can and cannot due.  Search the Sun site for "Introduction to Cloud Computing Architecture", provide some contact information, then it is free download.

(2) From the Gooogle Earth Blog,, a handy way to share a location, http://www.earthurl.org allows you to create a short URL to a place on Google Earth.  I guess it is a TinyURL for Google Earth, here is an example from D.C.

DAZ 3D Studio Start

I have purchased and installed DAZ Studio, and have been struggling with content management.  Thank the maker for  cellarstudio3d.com, they have a great video series of videos on getting started.  Hopefully, I will successfully create some art for this rather plan blog.

Now I have to find some time to do this stuff.

Programming thoughts found on the Web

Some thoughts for the day care of S. Lott

* "Quick And Dirty == Guaranteed Rework"

* "He Who Codes First Loses"

* "Think Once -- Code Twice"

* "Admin's Law: It's Always Permissions"

* "Programmer's Law: If it's not permissions, it's the path"

* "If it seems hard, you're doing it wrong"

* "One-Off == The First of Many"

* "Requirements Translation: Never == Rarely, Always == Mostly"

* "Things Change: Generalize and Parameterize