Author: F C

Remote blogging from Blackberry

I’ve given into the ball and chain and agreed to get a Blackberry from work. The big plusses are that I won’t have to pay for my sms messages anymore (a really big deal since my personal cingular account doesn’t have free receive like my old at&t account did. They gave me an 8800 which is quite sweet – the full keyboard is very usable. I also added some remote terminal software so I can do about 80% of my work without taking my laptop, and got IM+, a third party Skype hookup, working. It’s really nice.

I will have to figure out what to do with my personal phone. I do want to keep my old number, but I’ll have to figure out what new plan to get as my contract is up.

Inner Join

Was giving tech support over Skype the other day, and I was asked about a database search that seemed really complicated, but after simplifying, it turned out to be an Inner Join (check out Wikipedia if you want to get the official definition). Suffice to say, it means to pick out the stuff that matches without duplicating, and discard what doesn’t.

Went to 2 reunions – my 10 year from law school, and my 15 year from college.  It was good to go – not because there would be a lot of people going from my year (there weren’t) — but for my inner feeling of belonging. For the ones that showed up, it was enough for me.

Had to do evaluations for the staff that I supervise; the fact is that all of my words have been distilled into one number. It’s very hard for me because I think that people are much more complex than just a number, but this is what we all have to work with.

I’ve finally caved in, and I’m going to get a Blackberry from work. In one way, I don’t want to deal with the ball and chain, but on the other hand, it will give me a lot more ability to be mobile and/or omnipresent, and I’m going to need more of it.

Food for this past week: Wednesday at Chelsea Piers’ Lighthouse (very good appetizers as SSW noted, but the bite-sized desserts were killer). Park Slope Chipshop (smaller selection of brews, but they have a choice of lamb curry or cranberry turkey stew – both awesome). I actually had the haddock and chips – wonderful flakiness. They also carry a full line of British groceries – Walker’s crisps were on sale – Marmite flavour is my favorite.