7. 2006 July

7.1 Monday, July 3

1. astrology.ca. A source for astrology glyphs, including wallpaper.

7.2 Monday, July 10

1. ``What they're dying for: oil, lily pads, & puppets''. By Nicolas J S Davies. At Aljazeera.net. [59]

7.2.1 Data cubes

1. ``A temporally oriented data model''. By Gad Ariav. [13]

2. ``Data Cubes''. By Russell Kay. []

3. ``Implementing data cubes efficiently''. By Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman and Jeffrey D. Ullman. [114]

4. ``Data Cube: A Relational Aggregation Operator Generalizing Group-By, Cross-Tab, and Sub-Totals''. By a whole bunch of peeps. 1997. [107]

5. ``An Incomplete Data Cube''. By Curtis E. Dyreson. [75]

6. ``Modeling, querying and reasoning about OLAP databases: a functional approach''. By Ken Q. Pu. [219]

7. ``Requirement-based data cube schema design''. By David W. Cheung and Bo Zhou and Ben Kao and Hongjun Lu and Tak Wah Lam and Hing Fung Ting. [42]

8. ``A data model for supporting on-line analytical processing''. By Chang Li and X. Sean Wang. [164]

9. ``An Incomplete Data Cube - Overview: A Data Cube Tool for Missing Data''. By Curtis E. Dyreson. [75]

10. ``Data Cubes: What they are , and how to create and use them''. [293]

7.3 Wednesday, July 12

1. ``Dabhol and the death of Kenneth Lay''. By Dilip D'Souza. [69]

2. ``In the eyes of the law, Ken Lay not a felon''. By Dan Margolies. [180]

3. ``Death by Wikipedia: The Kenneth Lay Chronicles''. By Frank Ahrens. At The Washington Post. [6]

4. ``Enron founder Ken Lay dies''. By Shaheen Pasha. [208]

5. ``Ken Lay Dead Getting Approximately Same Amount of Respect As Ken Lay Alive''. [322]

6. ``Enron ex-chief Kenneth Lay dies''. At BBC News. [300]

7. ``Readers smell conspiracy in Lay’s sudden death''. [339]

   The beginning of the article says that many readers ``wanted DNA tests confirming the cause of death''. DNA tests to verify the cause of death? Uh, yeah, right.

7.4 Thursday, July 13

1. ``Web 2.0: Stuck on a name or hooked on value''. By Tim O'Reilly. [206]

   I don't think he made his case that the term ``web 2.0'' is hooked on value.

2. ``Living with compliance''. By Michael Swaine. [395]

3. ``Infoglut''. By Peter J. Denning. [62]

4. ``What road ahead for Microsoft & Windows''. By Michael A. Cusumano. [50]

5. ``Sun, Java, and the middle course''. By Michael Swaine. [397]

7.5 Saturday, July 15

1. ``Device trails: How Windows remembers your connections''. By Gutterman & Rosenan. [110]

2. ``Discovering relationships in context''. By Celko. [41]

   This essay may have been my favorite from the 2006 July Dobbs.

3. ``Configuring J2EE deployment descriptors''. By Steve Taylor. [403]

4. ``Quick-kill project management''. By Stellman and Greene. [381]

5. ``In defense of laziness''. By Pete Becker. [27]

6. ``Linux for corporations''. By Ed Nisley. [203]

7.6 Sunday, July 16

1. ``Viewpoint: Principles of problem solving''. By Wegner and Goldin. [423]

7.7 Wednesday, July 19

1. ``Hackers learn from open source: McAfee spots 'bot' danger''. By Robert McMillan. [189]

2. ``Bush blocked eavesdropping program probe''. By Mark Sherman. At Seattle Post-Intelligencer. [248]

3. ``Virtual reality gaming system tests for telepathy''. [375]

4. ``Google exec challenges Berners-Lee''. By Candace Lombardi. [175]

5. ``SQL injection attacks against banks on the rise''. [351]

6. ``SecureWorks Finds SQL Injection Hacker Attacks on the Rise against Banks, Credit Unions and Utilities''. [344]

7. ``Why CSS bugs me''. By John C. Dvorak. [73]

8. AfterDowningStreet.org

7.8 Saturday, July 22

1. A Mind to Murder. By P.D. James. [137]

2. ``Reliable Messaging, Transactions, and Messages - oh my''. By Udi Dahan. [51]

3. ``Reliable Messaging, Transactions, and Messages - take 2''. By Udi Dahan. [52]

7.9 Saturday, July 29

1. ``Reliable Messaging, Transactions, and Messages - oh my''. By Udi Dahan. [51]

2. ``Reliable Messaging, Transactions, and Messages - take 2''. By Udi Dahan. [52]

3. ``Experts weigh prospect of full DNS control by ICANN''. By Juan Carlos Perez. [210]

4. ``US to continue its control over ICANN''. By Eric Bangeman. [21]

5. ``WTO talks collapse spells doom for Africa: commentary''. [379]

6. ``The Human Factor''. Alexandra Weber Morales. [194]

7. ``Sweet Predictability''. Watts Humphrey. [133]

8. ``Protect Data, Enforce Licenses''. Mike Riley. [227]

   I didn't find any useful information in this essay, & methinks Mr Riley has drunk the DRM cool-aid. He repeatedly claims that DRM is important to revenue & standards compliance, but he doesn't question those standards or the DRM implementations.

9. Coding for the code. [380]

7.10 Sunday, July 30

1. Web Mage. Kelly McCullough. [186]

2. The World of Edward Gorey. Clifford Ross and Karen Wilkin. [230]

7.11 Monday, July 31

1. ``Column: Get That Out of Your Mouth #27''. By Chris Dahlen. [54]