Month: October 2008

  • What is this bird?

    This bird killed a Mourning Dove right outside my (home) office window this morning. I’m fairly certain it was a young Peregrine Falcon, but the map ranges show they don’t live anywhere close to Southern Ontario. The tail (not really seen in the pictures) was fairly long, with horizontal dark brown stripes on it. We…

  • Oracle SQL: Converting Hex to Decimal and Bit Operations

    I realized the other day how much I depend on Google to help find quick answers, and how much information is actually out on the web. I also realized that I don’t contribute much, so I’m hoping to change that. I needed to check bitmasks against an Oracle DB the other day. My bitmask was…

  • Massassauga

    I took Noah and his cousin Mitchell to Massassauga park last week, leaving Thursday to site 6, and staying for two nights. The weather was very nice (20 degrees C in the daytime), and the colors were incredible. The reds are so red it looks almost impossible. I’ve uploaded some pictures to my shiny new…