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The Blizzard of 2008

We got a lot of snow last week. As you can see, the Wee Beastie (an ancient snowblower refurbuished and given to us by my step-dad) held its own. Here are some pictures.

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The First Snow

It was so nice outside this morning that I didn’t wear boots or a hat to work. All of a sudden it was a blizzard outside. Now we have 2 or 3 inches of dense, wet snow.

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Book Meme

OK, here it goes, I will now participate in my first Internet meme. From “Mastering SQL” by Martin Gruber: “In the second option above, we can use a default value as an alternative to a NULL.” The Meme: Grab the … Continue reading

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Awesome Cartoon

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Tomcat5.5 and Apache2 on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

Getting Tomcat and Apache working together isn’t very complicated as long as you know what to do! Installation Enable multiverse repository sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk apache2 sudo apt-get install tomcat5.5 tomcat5.5-admin tomcat5.5-webapps libapache2-mod-jk sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 restart Tests: … Continue reading

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