Monthly Archives: September 2005
Tree with Natural Hole
I thought I better make a record of the natural hole in this tree in Duke Forest before it gets filled in by growth. I wonder how long it’s been there and how big it was when it started. I … Continue reading
Vacation Down East
We just returned from six days in eastern North Carolina (a.k.a. the Coastal Plains), first in historic New Bern and then at Atlantic Beach. The photo is the Harmony House B&B where we stayed in New Bern. There’s a lot … Continue reading
Unsophisticated Art Review : Ian Bostridge & Julius Drake
Our second show of the performing arts series was tenor Ian Bostridge and pianist Julius Drake performing Shubert pieces. I can’t decide if I would have liked it better if the singing was in English or not. Being in German, … Continue reading
Unsophisticated Art Review : Ronald K. Brown/Evidence
To celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary, Bonnie and I got season tickets for the Carolina Performing Arts Series at the newly renovated Memorial Hall at UNC. We don’t see a lot of performance art, so it will be a good … Continue reading
XML Schema Wiki
When I was involved with the XML Schema Working Group, I sometimes suggested a wiki as a way to hash out some of the more difficult issues, but nothing ever came of it. I don’t know the circumstances of its … Continue reading
Timestamp vs. Date on compareTo
I made another update to the JSPWiki JDBC Providers after a user was getting errors mixing the JDBC page provider with a different, non-JDBC attachment provider. The weird thing is that I have the same mixing in the wikis I … Continue reading