Our family name

I've been talking with the Second Life people, and it looks like our family name for GST 364 (Winter term) will be .... (drumroll please)....RavenRadiks. I'll send out an email so you can start thinking about what avatar first name you want.

Attention Database Students: Lumps of Coal

Here's a kid making money off those "lumps of coal" you had to design into your CIS 301 final projects for naughty children at Christmas time:

The perfect Christmas gift for Scrooge: WEST COVINA, Calif.

Eleven-year-old Alec Nystrom is selling lumps of coal for 50 cents from a stand in front of his home about 20 miles east of Los Angeles.

So far he's made about 100 dollars, which he's put toward the cost of a dirt bike.

The boy says he got the idea of selling coal from his father, who said he'd been warned as a child that coal would be in his Christmas stocking if he didn't behave.

The boy got the coal supplies from his dad's art supplies.

He says one person bought 20 pieces for a Christmas party.

Google Suggest

The entire blogosphere is all a'twitter today over Google Suggest. It's pretty neat, especially the use of the iframe for dynamic querying of the server.

How NOT to dress for work

How NOT to dress for work. Basically, club clothes = NO.