I took a peek at the stats for Coffee|Code today, and was a wee bit surprised to see that Hot Coffee code was the top search string that brought people to my site. Jeez, and here I was thinking that all these people were enthralled by my tales of …
Yup, tonight I'm live blogging WWdN #18: Fishy McDonk Invitational Part Deux, which is just like last week's live blog, only this time it's personal. Or something like that.
Last week, for the second week in a row, I bowed out of the tournament due to a short-stacked hammer. To …
Hmm, so last week my filthy goal of finishing in the money came up a bit short (about 30 places short) when my short-stacked pocket eights met pocket jacks and came out the worse for wear. I've noticed a little pattern in the last two weeks of my play: when …
Last week at the WWdN#15 I exceeded my original goals, but failed to make it to the cash after a couple of my hammer bluffs were called (to ruinous effect) by [STRIKEOUT:evil]wise, astute players.
This week, I have a new goal: I want a piece of that …
As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm leaving IBM for a new opportunity at Laurentian University. Over the past year and a half a lot of my personal and professional effort has gone into the PHP community: contributing documentation, acting as the release lead for the ibm_db2 and …
Posted on Mon 27 February 2006 in Databases • Tagged with Personal
After almost eight years, today is my penultimate day at IBM.
I've done a lot of interesting work for IBM in that time. From learning about Linux back in 1998 by testing the pre-release DB2 Version 5.2 beta for Linux, to writing the original DB2 for Linux HOWTO for …
Posted on Tue 21 February 2006 in Gaming • Tagged with Poker
Last time I tried this live-blogging thing, I reached my goal of placing in the top 100. Of course, there were only 99 registered players, and I placed 99th, so that was the wrong kind of outstanding finish.
This time, I'm aiming a bit higher:
Posted on Mon 20 February 2006 in misc • Tagged with Personal
Last weekend I was assigned the task of priming and painting our bedrooms. The previous owners had decided to use bold, garish colours, which meant that I was doomed to prime and reprime before I would even have the chance of adding some of our own "style" to the house …
Posted on Tue 14 February 2006 in misc • Tagged with Personal
It's 6:15 am on a Tuesday morning. I am sleep deprived and half hung-over from the paint fumes I have filtered through my lungs in preparing the baby's room this weekend. Despite this, I'm anxiously awaiting your arrival at the bus station. It has been days …
Posted on Sun 12 February 2006 in misc • Tagged with Personal
Hmm... for a good break from my drivel about poker and databases (and, somewhere in the distance, my coffee -- oh my coffee!), try Distant Ramblings. For one thing, the writer is talented. For another, she lives in an extremely interesting place in an extremely interesting time: try Israel, now. She's …