My mom, in Louisiana, sets up a flamingo tree every year for the last several years. It started half jokingly as a small tree in addition to the regular one, but seems to have become the centerpiece.
My mom, in Louisiana, sets up a flamingo tree every year for the last several years. It started half jokingly as a small tree in addition to the regular one, but seems to have become the centerpiece.
Only the second time I've seen one in my predominantly paperless office.
For those who haven't followed my last few posts, this morning, at 6 AM, Cincinnati Public Schools' magnet schools had open registration. We wanted to make sure we secured a slot for kindergarten. It is not uncommon for folks to camp out for days to get a slot. The one we targeted, Sands Montessori is a popular choice, with 65 applicants to all grades by the time registration opened.
They're letting us sleep in the school.
But, for a free tent, it's doing quite well. Here in the Sands Montessori line, we have what my dad would call a "slow, soaking rain." setting up the tent on arrival was a good call.
Registration for Sands Montessori is 6 AM tomorrow. 17 hours to go. I've set up for the long haul.
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What's the first exhibit you visit at the zoo?
Look! An excuse to post more pictures of cats from the Cincinnati Zoo! We have an excellent collection of cats. For starters, by popular demand, a Pallas cat:
While I had posted other pictures from these visits to the zoo, these are ones that didn't make the cut--usually some combination of a less-than-great photo and better options for a similar shot. But, I wanted to put up new ones.
It's hard to believe that, ten years ago, we were making preparations for the Y2K cut-over. As an IT professional, this was something we had to plan for, prepare for, and test.
We spent lots of money on remediation. I know that more than a few companies chose to replace the systems outright. At the time, my office specialized in implementing such systems. After Y2K, everyone had a shiny new system--it took a while before things picked up again.
As this article notes, the use of off-shore people started with Y2K. Once companies realized the benefit, they realized they could continue to send work overseas.
At the end of the day, was disaster averted, or was it a waste? Overall, I think that the remediation effort served its key aim of preventing lots of annoying little problems from causing not a global collapse, but months and years of lost productivity after the fact, sorting it out piecemeal.
Y2K came at an odd time in the world of computing. It was at the heels of the first internet wave, when such technology became a key part of day-to-day life. Over the course of the nineties, what was something that tended to be part of big business was being pushed to smaller and smaller organizations. Y2K, I think, was the capstone event for this shift, leading to a few years until the next phase.
