"In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." –John 16:33

In the stacks at the NCSU D.H. Hill Library

Day 62 of 1000

The kids are completely swamped with homework.  I am completely swamped with the need to learn more about SQL and data mining.  We are broke (and still a little big dizzy) from having attended the North Carolina State Fair yesterday.  So, breaking our normal routine, we went home for lunch (rather than Wendy’s) after church and ate leftovers.  We left Mom to study for her Financial Accounting class, and made our way into the stacks rather than to the first floor conversation area of the library where there is a lot more college drama, but a lot less studying.  Now we are hard at work in the fourth floor stacks with photographic evidence that we are on task.

I decided that I needed to upgrade my Ubuntu to 11.10, load up MySQL and find myself a project that has to do both with SQL and BleAx to kill two birds with one stone–SQL and BleAx.  It is really three birds because every time I go over to our buddy Lyle’s blog, I get Linux envy.

Update:  I updated VirtualBox to v4.1.4 and Ubuntu to 11.10.  I turned off that horrible Unity thing that the Ubuntu guys want to impose on us, I struggled for about 5 minutes to get full screen mode going again in VirtualBox with GuestAdditions.  Now I am installing MySQL Server, MySQL Client, and MySQL Administrator.  I am not sure that is exactly the right thing to do, but it will probably get me started.  We will head home to the house in about five minutes.

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2 Comments

  1. wendy pfister

    hi ken! just starting reading your blog lately. don’t understand all that computer gibberish but i wanted to say that kelly is a beautiful young lady!! 🙂

  2. Dad

    Thanks for coming by Wendy and for the fine compliments about Kelly! I am trying to keep the computer gibberish to a minimum–I really don’t understand it too well myself–that is the problem. Greetings to Bob!

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