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Thursday, January 16, 2003 |
I saw Gangs of New York . Daniel Day Lewis was worth the price of admission, but the real joy was to see 19th century New York reproduced. You could almost smell it. The movie had some flaws. At the end of the movie, Bill the Butcher gained the ability to move 4 squares per turn and see in the smoke with his one eye while everyone else was blind. He would come running out of the smoke hacking away and then disappear again. Annoying. As my brother said, he basically turned into Chuckie.
11:25:39 PM 
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Great show tonight on MPR show Speaking of Faith. Sex and Spirituality. Give it a listen. I have heard this phrase often but never knew until now what it meant.
I had a flash of insight that sex is an icon that is supposed to point to something deeper between two people (or three or one, I suppose). Like many icons, we end up worshipping the icon itself instead of what it is supposed to represent.
10:52:57 PM
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I went to the Twin Cities Oracle User Group today. All about 9i. Except when the speaker polled the room, only a handful of people said they had moved to 9i. About 1/5 of the people raised their hands when he asked who was still using 7.x. A lot of the presentations were not really aimed at me so I got bored and left, but not before hearing about how 9i wasn't completely stable yet and that you couldn't use it with Oracle 7 at all. Like microsoft, one of their most vicious competitors is their own products.
At lunch, there was much moaning and groaning about the economy. Someone told me that Honeywell is outsourcing all of their IT workers. Mostly to India. This person also said that service has gone out the window as far as IT goes. Networks down for several days in a row where before they had very little down time.
6:17:22 PM
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Our new java guru is a great teacher. The first lesson he sat over my shoulder and advised me in my java baby steps and it kind of felt like he opened the top of my skull and poured knowledge in. Here is what I learned in the first lesson.
2:59:56 PM
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