These are the ramblings of a young married couple in the great City of Chicago.
My manager, Shyam, is always looking out for good article the team should read. One of those articles he forwarded us recently is about a set of rules compiled by Bill Swanson, CEO of Raytheon. This article lists some of the rules with commentary from Mr. Swanson and other CEOs. It is a very good read. I recommend it to folks in any industry, however people in “business” will find it most appealing. (Kris that means you should read it.)
Nina forwarded on some advice to help make sure the correct people are contacted in case you are in an accident. This website is from the ambulance service that started the campaign. The basic advice is to enter the information of the people you want contacted in case there is an emergence under the name ICE (In Case of Emergency) in your cell phone.
In Chile a new law has passed regarding DNA paternity tests. If a man does not submit to the test he will be assumed to be the father.
I don?t know if I agree with this, but it is pretty interesting idea. One unintended side effect I can think of is wealthy men continually being hounded by desperate (and likely some ill intentioned) mothers.
London was rattled today in a series of attacks on their mass transportation system. So far, 37 people have been reported dead and hundreds injured. I pray for those people, their families, Britain, and all the nations in the war against al Qaeda. This attack should harden our resolve to rout out the Islamists wherever they hide and bring them to justice.
Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London, expressed the reasons that the terrorists will loose very well. You can listen here (thanks to Rush Limbaugh) and read it here. The whole is worth listening or reading, but this is the heart of it telling the terrorist why they will fail.
In the days that follow look at our airports, look at our sea ports and look at our railway stations and, even after your cowardly attack, you will see that people from the rest of Britain, people from around the world will arrive in London to become Londoners and to fulfill their dreams and achieve their potential.
This morning I had my semiannual dental cleaning. The appointment went very smoothly. The hygienist only gave me the usually scolding because I do not floss or use mouthwash regularly. January’s checkup resulting in what Dr. Capper called ‘quadrant dentistry’ to fill 14 cavities. After that experience I can not longer listen to Eric and Kathy and not think of a dental drill. Ouch!
At work, I have been building a framework that will allow us to quickly test the batch processing portion of the program I work on. If I build it correctly, and I think I am, we will be able to quickly add new tests when we encounter new scenarios that need to be validated. Then we can run all of these tests and be sure that the system will work correctly. I am also building it in a way to facilitate performance testing. I am pretty excited about this whole project. I have embarked upon it on my own. It is not part of any project plans, but it will speed up our system testing as well as speed up and increase the accuracy of development. The challenge will be writing the correct tests.
At OpinionJournal.com, James Taranto has an article entitle ‘The Roe Effect’. It explores how the act of abortion can feed into the politics of abortion. You should read the article, but the bottom line is that the children who were aborted would have been more likely to grow up to support abortion and vote Democratically based on who their parents are. I had thought about this before, and it makes sense on the surface. The numbers Taranto presents seem sound, but he is not presenting the whole picture. Steve Sailer points out the flaws in the logic. I don’t want to steal his thunder so read the article.
Finally, I am reading this great book, Love & Hate in Jamestown. It is a history of the known, but usually not truthfully known, story of Jamestown, Va., Capt. John Smith, and Pocahontas. I am about half way through and I highly recommend it. This book has affected me in a personal way, but I will tell you about that tomorrow.