Like just about everything to do with Erlang, database driver support appears to be in total disarray. I’d like to be able to store data in a PostgreSQL database and access it reasonably well. Options appear to be
Erlang psql driver that is a fork or something of the code by Erlang Consulting. [...]
I’m starting to have serious doubts about Britain’s ability to construct home appliances. In the year and a half that I have been in Cambridge, I am on my fourth coffeemaker and second rice cooker. This is starting to get absurd.
My family and I visited Edinburgh, Scotland for a few days. I’ve posted the pictures here.
Slate already has an article about the terrorist attacks in London today. I like his assessment of Britons:
The natural state of the English is a kind of gloomy diligence, which is why they do so well in hard times. In 1940, Londoners went dutifully on with their business while the Luftwaffe bombed the hell [...]
Here are some pictures from the 2005 St. John’s May Ball.
I put up some pictures of May Bumps here.
When I was at MIT, I had one University card. It served as on-campus picture identification. It got me into buildings for which I was authorized. It could be activated to allow me into the gymnasium if I was a member, and the music practice rooms. It allowed me to make [...]
Wikipedia has a pair of interesting articles worth checking out: The 100 Greatest Britons and The 100 Worst Britons. There are seven people who appear on both lists. Somehow David Bowie made the greatest list at 29, beating out both Charles Dickens and King Arthur. Harry Potter, despite being fictional, managed to [...]
Tony Blair, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has declined the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest military honor bestowed by the United States. President Bush wishes to present it in honor of the UK’s support of the Iraq war, even as most of the rest of the world criticized the [...]