Monthly Archives: June 2013
Northern Ireland
This weekend I spoke at SQL Saturday #229 in Dublin, and Sunday I went with Magda and her son Mattie to Giant’s Causeway and the 13th Century Dunluce Castle.
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Objections to the new Mac Pro?
Yesterday at WWDC Apple announced and gave a sneak peek of the new Mac Pro, which I have been waiting for for a couple of years. For background, here is my current setup, an 8-core 2008 Mac Pro (3,1) with two ATI Radeon HD 5870s driving two 30″ cinema displays and 32 GB of 800 MHz DDR2 memory (8 x 4 GB):
Lots of pictures from Alaska
I spent last week in Alaska with a bunch of friends on SQL Cruise. We left Seattle and headed to Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, and Victoria, BC. This was the same itinerary as the trip Nicole and I took two years ago, but I took several different excursions, had much better weather (sunny and 75° in every port), and I saw a lot more wildlife. Most of the pictures are very high res, so feel free to click on any to enlarge.
Ketchikan, Alaska
Our first day in port was Ketchikan. I started with a terrible coffee from a shop called, ironically, “Good Coffee.” I had a not-so-good coffee there the last time I was here, and should have known better. At least they had entertaining wall art:
