Here we are again. Fall equinox, another week gone. Big weekend ahead. A thing on each day-circle supper, Church poker night, kite festival. woo-hoo. Got DSL set up, and running. I also got some webspace for podBlogs and webcam… nice. Now I need a wireless router. Work is busy-real artwork this week.
The recap: worked out Thursday, went to a birthday party at an equestrian center Sat., ate at Hometown Buffet later, early at Church Sunday to set up, child care, swim-Matt got in trouble, I got in trouble Monday and Weds-this time for electricity bill messup, ate at Peppino’s. A JetBlue plane had a messed up front gear and landed in a shower of sparks, no problems-kudos to that pilot.
Oracle is going to buy Siebel-lots of m&a activity right now. I wonder if we’re on the block? Oracle is looking to compete with SAP-we’ll see. Peoplesoft seems to have been swallowed successfully-Siebel is close to Oracle HQ, so it should go pretty easily too.
Hurricane Rita is bearing down on the Gulf coast. It was the 3rd strongest Gulf storm ever, but it seems to have weakened as it hit some cooler water-to a category 4. Still a killer. Oil prices are up. People are running-mostly because of Katrina. We’ll see. New Orleans and the outlying areas are still a mess.
Got Eclipse test performance tools platform, Firefox 1.07 (a 1.5 beta is out there too), net Transport to rip a realVideo stream, xMing to try to xWindows into my Linux and Solaris boxes, and Croquet, which is a new OS from Alan Kay.