Remiss in my purpose

About a year ago, I had started back to collecting comics and had intended to review them here. The trouble was that everything I bought satisfied me and it was difficult to think of different ways to write "This was a good read" or "A+++++ Will read again." It was tedious, so I let it slide.

Today is Comic Book Day once again. I haven't picked up my stash, but here's some insight. I only read two Marvel titles (Wolverine Origins and Moon Knight), so the whole Civil War, Death of Captain America business hasn't had much of an effect on me. DC is getting ready to wrap up their 52 weekly comic and start a new weekly series called Countdown. I'll pick it up, most likely. The 2 best comics that I'm picking up now, if I had to choose, would be The Lone Ranger (from Dynamite Entertainment) and The Spirit (from DC). The Lone Ranger is currently retelling the origin (it's up to issue 5, I think) and is doing a good job of it. The Spirit is a revival of the classic Will Eisner Series.

And, (this doesn't happen much, so take note) I do have a negative review. Batman 663 was awful. It was written in prose with back ground drawing, instead of the traditional comic format. The story didn't hold my interest. I'm not sure if it was the story itself, or just the format, but I didn't care for it.

And when you tried it what happened?

My job is working with Oracle databases. One of the best answers to many of the questions people ask is the title of this post. Oracle allows its software free for download for the purpose of development. All you need to do is get Oracle installed (either hit the Oracle documentation site or Howard J. Rogers' (dizwell) site.) Set yourself up a test case and run your command and see what happens. If you're still not sure, you can either check Oracle's support site, or, if you don't have support, visit Ask Tom. There are other Oracle sites, but those are the ones I mainly use.

What the devil?

I had an idea for a new blog post, and I was going to quote a couple things from a blog called Creating Passionate Users (CPU) to give me some background info on want I was going to write. What I found was unexpected and shocking. CPU is a collaborative blog, but the main writer is Kathy Sierra. I just read the blog, I don't know Kathy or read the comments much. I don't know any of the back story or anything. Unfortunately, Kathy has received death threats and been the target of several disturbing blog posts. This just doesn't seem to me to be what blogs and the internet was meant for.

Sorry to be such a downer, the current post at CPU just threw me for a loop.

Well, even if you do know Jack

One of our local radio stations was using the Jack format (We play what we want). It was a ratings failure, so they recently restarted with an Oldies format. This was the format they had before Jack, more or less, but that's really not important to the story. (That line is cribbed from the Weird Al Show from CBS)

SO what's that got to do with anything? Well, it's time for a format change here at Nuggie Land. I've poked around with the template, and I expect that I'm not done. I'll add some new content.