One of my favorite classical music stations is no more. Now it’s country-western, ugh!
Actually, the station technically moved to the AM band, but that bothers me just as much. Classical just won’t sound as good on AM as it will on FM.
Oh well. Time to buy more CDs…
Today I heard a piece by Jacques Offenbach that is allegedly about a parrot owned by a girl’s boarding school, that dies of constipation. The parrot’s death of course affects the young ladies badly. Unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to listen to the music, but I’m sure it would have been interesting, to say the least.
If you can read German, or if you can operate Babelfish, here’s a URL to a description of the piece:
www.jacques-offenbach.de/liste-vert.html
Update: It’s true!
I have been thinking for a long time about what language would be best to use for implementing a relational database system. Keep in mind that this is not for any serious use; I want to implement this as an educational platform for the students in my database systems course, so that they can have some of the grungier details all nailed down for them. So, a clean, modular architecture is the number one focus, and performance is a rather distant concern.
(This is also why I have generally ruled out open-source database systems as a teaching aid. Although most open-source databases are quite impressive in their capabilities and performance, they just don’t have the modularity and the simplicity that an effective teaching tool would need.)
I just finished preparing the 18th lecture in my database course. That’s 2/3 done - only nine lectures left!
Of course, grading is another matter entirely… sigh…
There have been a lot of visitor lectures so far this year. Quite a few of them look pretty interesting, especially the upcoming lecture by RMS. But I mainly like these lectures for the opportunity to snag a free brownie…
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