Monthly Archives: November 2003

thanksgiving recipe

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After the success of my entry on easy summer recipes (thanks to Google, it was my most visited entry throughout the summer), I thought I would try another recipe entry. Here in the U.S., next Thursday is Thanksgiving, and the following is my favorite holiday dish, believe it or not. Here’s what I’d like you to do: post your own favorite recipe on your blog and TrackBack to this entry or post it here in the comments.

Carrots and Turnips

  • 2 pounds carrots, chopped
  • 1.5 pounds turnips, chopped
  • 3 tablespoons butter (or to taste)
  • salt

Cook the carrots and turnips in salted boiling water until soft. Drain the vegetables and put them in a large bowl with the butter. Mash them as you would potatoes. Enjoy!

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jake: database of information about journals

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Jake is a free, online database that provides information about where a particular journal is indexed, lists of all journals indexed by a particular database or lists of journals by subject, Dewey or LC call numbers. Jake also provides information about full-text availability of journal articles. Very useful stuff.

early manuscripts at oxford university

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Digital facsimiles of complete manuscripts, scanned directly from the originals. This site provides access to over 80 early manuscripts now in institutions associated with the University of Oxford.

database blues, or what would joshua reynolds say?

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Working on a PostgreSQL database with over a thousand records from late eighteenth-century exhibition catalogues of the Royal Academy, I discover I cannot alter the attributes of a column once it’s already been created.

WTF?

It’s true. You have to backup all the data, recreate the table from scratch with the column attributes you want, and then reload your backup.

At least that’s what you have to do with version 6.5.2 of PostgreSQL. It’s possible later versions allow you to do something simpler.

Just a techno-geek entry, dear reader, to bolster my street-cred with the computing crowd. ;-)

Update: On second thought, maybe the fact that I didn’t already know this does nothing for my credibility. Hmm.