Rants, musings, and other general purpose blog entries reflecting the thoughts du jour.
The local news station has their helicopter working their way south from Raleigh…downtown Fayetteville actually looks fairly decent and the bridges are generally open but that water is right under the deck of the bridges (and at the railroad bridge just north of downtown, there are a bunch of logs piled up right at the bridge deck). Getting there from Raleigh would be a bit of a trick…most of I-95 is closed from US-64 (Rocky…
Just wanted to give all of my friends and family on Facebook a quick update…all is well here in East Raleigh. Other than a few power flickers and one outage lasting about a hour…my oldest son and I came through the storm just fine. NWS Raleigh is estimating we got about 8-10" of rain from Florence which was actually more than what Matthew dumped on us two years ago. There was localised flooding in the…
I just saw an alert that another tropical cyclone named Gordon has formed and will be wandering from the keys past the western coast of Florida and it reminded me of driving in the Tampa/St Petersburg area when Hurricane Gordon was passing close ashore in September, 2000. I had gone walkabout in the area whilst waiting for a pre-season tilt between the Carolina Hurricanes and Tampa Bay Lightning and was driving northbound over the Sunshine…
I've recently discovered HeidiSQL after driving Oracle's "MySQL Workbench" for years to develop a registration database/web application for Horses for Hope where Alexander does therapeutic horseback riding. Don't get me wrong…"MySQL Workbench" has been a wonderful tool for development, especially when it came to doing exports/imports as part of the backup and migration strategy for the application. However, I've recently found myself in the situation where I'm dealing with three different versions/flavours of MySQL: WAMPSERVER…
“The Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin was one of those generational talents that can never truly be replaced. I will never forget her belting out “Think” at Matt “Guitar” Murphy in “The Blues Brothers”…that bit in the Soul Food Cafe was by far the best scene for me in the entire movie and came at the perfect time to resurrect her career which was in a bit of a slump at the time. The Queen…
WRAL is reporting that Chuck Kaiton was offered a one year contract to stay on as the only radio broadcaster the Carolina Hurricanes and Whalers franchises has ever known. He turned them down….as well he should. Tom Dundon needs to learn there are ways you treat Hall of Famers in the NHL. Doing what he did to Ron Francis was classless enough but effectively chucking Chuck and the Letter K into the bin is just…
