Willie Mae's Scotch House

2401 Saint Ann St
New Orleans, LA 70119
Phone: (504) 822-9503

Landmark restaurant, the gov, mayor and all of the big wigs plaster their plagues on the wall. But it is significant when Southern Foodways Alliance (SFA) raised 200 grand to save Willie Mae's Scotch House after Hurricane Katrina landed on New Orleans in 2005.

It serves simple southern food: fried chicken and pork chop with choices of sides such as butter bean, french fries, cabbage, red beans.

Love and recommend the pork chops with the side of cabbage with rice.

Yes, the crispy skin of the fried chicken is delicious but I like the fried chicken from Publix better.

Last Day in Jacksonville

It was smooth sailing on Tuesday: the junk was laid out, squeezed into the Relocube, excess garbage was picked up, and in the afternoon Craig showed up to pick up the grill, along with Wayne picking up the keys and the ABF Transportation person taking the Relocube away, all at the same time. :D

Wednesday, the last day in Jacksonville, we left at 11:30AM, flying to New Orleans, LA.

My Junks in 6 x 7 x 8

Hellish Monday

Everything went well on Saturday since nothing much is being done, just boxing up my stuff and papers.

Joe swang by on Sunday and helped me squeezed the sofa into the Relocube. After that, everything went crazy. I packed a third of my stuff that night, not much since I was tired from moving the couch and mattresses.

Monday was hell, although it started well, I ran errands: buying cleaning stuff and ratchets to tie down the stuff, keeping them from falling on us when we open it in Pacoima, CA. Took Michael to have lunch with people from downtown, Ray and Jen from SCM also showed up. Went home packed some more, I thought that I still have tons of space, not knowing that I was dead wrong. Later that afternoon I asked Michael for help with storing the vehicle for time being. #*?!@. After renting the car, we went to have diner, I was packing again until 3:30AM in the next day.

Last Working Day in Jacksonville

Good bye cube, smell you later.

Subversive Mom

Working Late

Yawn! Another midnight testing going on again... And the environment is totally crapping out.

Norco DS-520

MFreeman pointed out Norco DS-520 to me. Product spec: here. Additional review @ engadget: here.

My, o my, should I wait for another 4+ bays NAS from q-nap? Currently the 401 is underpowered.

Luminous eye...

Luminous eye...
Originally uploaded by fofurasfelinas

Good luck! (click the photo for full context :)

There are several reasons I like this picture: First, it is a picture of a black cat. While it is sitting on dark background, instead of blurring the subject, it is actually increasing the depth perception and the sharpness of the fur texture. Wonderful.

Glancing at the photo, I thought that the cat deliberately closing it's right eye and the person who took the picture was waiting until the cat was doing so. Wow, I thought, having a cat that could do that and waiting until it did it. What a good combination of patience and luck, I thought.

I was wrong, browsing other pictures, I realized that it was a defect. Poor thing. It is a good picture nevertheless.

Interesting Articles From WtF

Going through the magazine (online) ... I found these interesting articles:

ASSEMBLY 2007 (2007-07-30)
more info: www.assembly.org

FINLAND - SAUNA, GRIT, GUTS AND KOSSU (2007-08-10)
Kossu, eh?

I also like the article about Minna Parikka - too bad, it doesn't have any picture, besides the cover.

Joined Technorati

Mr Late Adopter joined technorati, start whoring himself to the world audience.

Technorati Profile

I Hate .*LOB

Today's lesson : I hate .*LOB.

First pain: there is no working DBI-Oracle PM for Perl 5.6. Now I have to switch to my stand alone Perl 5.8 (according to IPhang: it should work).

Second pain: the ppm GUI decided to die after buffer overflow. I know: oraociei10.dll is 91MB and gzoraociei10.dll is 30MB. So I have to fall back to the olde ppm command line.

Third pain: Oracle connection string, which one to choose? There are tons of non-working possibilities, in the end I picked tnsname.

Fourth pain: DB schema hell - each legal document type has it's own table (whiskey-tango-hotel?). Must insert additional logic here.

Last pain: getting the CLOB value (thank god - no inserting for today). Reading through the pod, tons of non-working examples and hints, I realized that:

1. Must know the length of the CLOB in advance. (select length(CLOB) from table)
   
2. Set the LongReadLen to the length of the CLOB
3. Get the CLOB (select CLOB from table) - voilà - the magic works.

WtF Magazine

Welcome to Finland - not whiskey tango foxtrot. Thanks boing2.

Link - http://welcometofinland.fi/




WtF Magazine (Welcome to Finland)
Originally uploaded by JIMWICh

Generating XML Test File From XSD, part 2

During YAPC::NA::2007, I spent some time researching into the Perl modules for XML processing (after the controversial BeerBOF), and I was confident that I could get the project done using XML::SAX.

Also: I skimmed through the XML Schema (XSD) reference page, part 0, 1 and 2 from W3 Consortium.

Samuel Adams Hallertau Imperial Pilsner

Love it, since it tripled the goodness of my peanut butter sandwich.

But I believe it is inferior to Anderson IPA (richer in flavor).