Avoid government owned buildings today.

Range hood is in, and might be wired this evening. Now they're doing the floor. Cabinet guy says he might be able to start next week or so. His shop was in the news this morning. SWAT team and everything. But it wasn't the cabinet shop. It was across the street. This really bothers me. Every single news article in which I've had close personal knowledge - in my entire life, has been blatantly incorrect. Really makes you wonder about the big stories. Like maybe the spy plane had 281 people on board instead of twenty something. Or maybe it was a Japanese plane being flown by Americans. That's the magnitude of the errors I've typically encountered in the press.

Update - hood is finished. Don't think I'll have it turned on high very often. Floor is done also. But I may have to wrap up in sleeping bags tonight. Linoleum glue is pretty nasty smelling stuff. Have to keep the windows open with another storm rolling in. I'd put the new hood on high all night, but that'll really spin the electric meter. Oh well, looks nice. Kinda' how I wanted it to look. I don't mind bundling up for one night.

San Jose City Council says... don't build the Calpine power plant. It "doesn't belong next to a high-tech campus". The governor is ready to ram it down their throats. See above for my opinions on the accuracy of this article. But let's assume for a moment that there's some truth to it. Where then should we build a power plant to fire up Silicon Valley? Nevada? Texas? I suppose we're just gonna' put all them kilowatts on 18-wheelers and truck 'em in... Get real. The proposed Calpine plant is the result of somebody thinking intelligently. Put a power plant right next to the main junction box for the south bay. The only thing we have resembling a power supply in Silicon Valley is the Stanford cogeneration plant, and it can hardly supply the capital of technology. Agreed, a power plant isn't environmentally pure. Sheeeet. It's a power plant. But let's put it where we need the power and avoid "trucking it in" at great cost. You'd think Cisco would be more than happy to be able to plug in to the center of the grid. But no... Everybody is instead worried about real estate values in the epicenter of the last empty acreage in the area. Let me put it another way. If the lights go out, the real estate values are going to drop through the floor. Think about that. I don't think that Cisco employees are going to mind having a bit more CO2 in the air. It's non-toxic. Heck there are folks like me that spend each workday in the middle of superfund sites. You adjust - don't drink the water, don't play in the dirt.

Structured Query Language (SQL) is usually pronounced "sequel" and sometimes "ess-queue-ell" depending on who you talk to, and people are very often religious about which form you use. I always piss everybody off because I prefer "skull". And I insist that my version will stand the test of time, which tends to eliminate tongue twisters and multi-syllabic word forms. I also don't predict a long life for w-w-w. Some folks have suggested "triple-u" (three syllables, still better than 9). I propose "web" - one syllable. In either case this one is an anomoly and will die. At one point in time, established internet sites needed to create URL's for the (new at the time) world-wide-web. So they came up with www.something. Nowadays, the website is the main site. There's no need to know about or explain www.foobar.com if "foobar.com" works on its own as a website. Very bad choice. web.foobar.com might survive. double-u-double-u-double-u is doomed. A year from now only lunatics will remember that we once advocated such lunacy.

Why not just have "w.foobar.com"? Why not indeed. Dub-uhl-you. Three syllables. Not counting the domain name. Actually I'd argue for eliminating this particular letter from the alphabet or renaming it. We can do better. "dub" or "shoe" as suggestions. Again, web.foobar.com has a chance. "dub-dot-foobar-dot-com" perhaps. Dub-uhl-you-dub-uhl-you-dub-uhl-you-dot-anything-dot-something is toast.