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  • Some skateboarding and fishing pictures

    Skateboarding Fishing at Mom’s hometown in Sweden We did the fish showing off thing. Not too sure how I feel about it now. Benjamin caught this big one. He didn’t want to hold it. The carp (?) was then quickly released. This bluegill is one of his first catches ever. He caught it at Morton…

    July 3, 2007
  • Problems with Oracle Migration Workbench

    Database vendors like to bash each other, sponsoring dubious “objective industry studies” to “prove” they are better than others. All of them do it. In my opinion, Oracle is particularly bad in this regard, compared against IBM DB2 or Microsoft Sql Server. Talking about “unbreakable Oracle” and software full of bugs, and in many cases…

    June 27, 2007
  • Traveling observations, first half of 2007

    Most cab drivers in big cities in the US are foreign born. I’ve taken taxi rides to and from airports a few times this year. Only once did I encounter an American born driver. He is African-American. I assume he was born here, since I didn’t ask. The rest were born in Uganda, India, Nepal,…

    June 24, 2007
  • 知了进车

    到美国很多年来都没见过知了(cicada),还以为这儿没有。今年夏天到了,才知道美国的爱叫的知了(magicicada)是13或17年才出一次。今年正是这种知了的出没年。怪不得我以前没印象呢,因为我是1995年来美国的,而这种知了这些年里都在蛰居。查了一下字典,它并没有对应的中文名字,就暂叫它“美蝉”吧。 我家乡的知了可是年年都来。它们嗓音大,个子也大,好像不怎么爱飞。美蝉嗓子也不小,但个子相对小,非常爱飞,并且飞到公路上,到处都是。我想它们被撞死或轧死的肯定不少。 我小时候吃过没出壳的腌炸的知了。刚才在网上查了查,原来吃知了的国家也不少。 今天中午我开车出去。天气热,我把车窗打开。一开始我什么都没觉到,但忽然间觉得有什么东西在脖子上爬,用手一模,那厮立即飞了。原来是美蝉,看来它是把我棕色的脖子当成树干了。 美蝉并没有飞出车外,相反,它唧哩扑腾地在后座的空间里绕了几圈,看来是不知道怎么出去。我赶紧打开所有的车窗,还是不行,因为我不时听到它撞击车窗的噪音。我想它肯定是在后窗和后座靠背之间的狭小空间里。 我停了车,美蝉果然在那儿。赶紧伸手去够。够得着,可不想伤害它。从车厢里拿出冬天用的刮雪刷,刚把它够过来,又立即又往后窗飞。这傻冒一门心思认定它可以飞过后窗,但屡战屡败。干脆把所有的车门都打开,所以它自己飞出去的机率大一些。可这样一来,外面美蝉的同党飞进的机率也大,最后只留一个门开着。 就这样和它对峙了一会儿。最后终于下了狠心,用手抓住了美蝉的翅膀。原先还以为会造成其翅膀脱节,但美蝉居然没事儿。赶紧把它放飞了。

    June 14, 2007
  • Failed Oracle 10g R2 Express Linux Installation Notes

    My first ever computer, the 10-year old HP Pavilion 4455 desktop, purchased after I finished my master degree in Economics, has seen very limited action in the last few years. My better half had suggested that I donate it away, since we really don’t have enough space to put it, but I refused, because I…

    June 13, 2007
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