Hugh's Worthless Blog

Well, my last posting was when the Cardinals were only down one game to zero against the Dodgers, on the day of the second game. It was a much more hopeful time for the Redbirds. Alas, so much for their season, and now we get to wait until Spring and watch the Rams lose to every team in the NFL. I may have to follow Blues hockey more and cheer for the Mizzou Tigers instead, as well as the mighty Wash U Bears (but, of course!) One interesting tidbit I found on the Post-Dispatch site was a salary database of every single employee of every public school district in the state of Missouri. Unfortunately stltoday.com uses these massive URL's that are almost unreadable so I hope my link works. It is very informational, but it does seem to be an invasion of privacy of some sort. Not only can you find out how much anybody paid for their home in the county or city of St. Louis, but you can find the salary of any public employee? The database link at http://www.stltoday.com/info has a t...

What a dreary, yucky day in St. Louis! Today it looks like rain all day so I skipped my usual walk to the bus stop and just drove to the Brentwood Metrolink station instead. That sure is a quick little drive and a lot drier! Of course, today is also dreary because of the Cardinal's loss to the Dodgers last night. Let's see if Adam Wainwright can help tie up this series. At least the rain is supposed to let up this weekend for the playoff games here. The one bright spot of the Dodgers winning last night is that if the Cards win tonight it guarantees two games here in St. Louis. So what else is new since I last posted a month ago? Now that it is October, I could talk about the approach of Windows 7, but I think Microsoft already gets enough free publicity. Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) will be released just a week later on the 29th, and it is completely free! I have not tried it yet myself since I run the 8.04 LTS release Hardy Heron on most systems, but it is supposedly a much fa...