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The largest project I’m presently working on at Dow Jones is the adoption of a publishing product from EidosMedia, a technology company in Milan. The product is called Méthode and looks very promising. Here are some article published recently regarding the selection of Méthode at Dow Jones.

Editor and Publisher – June 3, 2008 (requires subscription)
Dow Jones Selects EidosMedia’s Publishing Platform
Editor and Publisher (requires subscription)
E&P Technical: EidosMedia’s U.S. debut
Newspapers and Technology
Dow Jones blending print, Web

[correction- please see my new post]

I’ve done the five mile New Year’s run in Hamilton Veteran’s park for several years. The course follows paved trails for much of the distance. However, shortly after mile one the course turns left onto grass and eventually onto a dirt path, riddled with tree roots and sprinkled with mud puddles after it has rained. At least have of the runs I’ve done on New Year’s have been in the rain or just after a good rain. This always makes the second mile more exciting.

The course traverses three of the four entrances to the park: the start is near Kuser road adjacent to the tennis courts; mile two passes the West entrance adjacent the lake and hospital; mile three takes runners across the North entrance near the Veterans Memorial Plaza and gardens.

Each December I look for a map of the course online, but never seem to find one. So last January, I tucked away one of the paper maps that are distributed prior to the race. My intention was to put it on a website. I came across my paper copy a couple days ago which sparked a memory of my plan. So, I’ve scanned and uploaded the course map. If you’re looking for it, you will find it here. The map is the one provided by the organizers of the race each year.

Hamilton Veterans Park 5 Mile Couse Map Dated 3/24/1986.

See all you runners January 1st at noon.

It seems I’ve come to rely on Quest Toad. Now that I’ve returned to working with Oracle on a regular basis, I have to remind myself how to do things from SQLPLUS when I don’t have TOAD available.

Today I needed to examine the text of a trigger, but I couldn’t remember the view to obtain it from. Here’s the code to spool it to a text file:

-- eliminate row count message
set feedback off
-- eliminate headings from showing
set heading off
-- suppress output
set termout off
-- don't show sql in result set
set echo off
-- keep text body from wrapping
set linesize 1000
-- eliminate trailing blanks
set trimspool on
spool /tmp/trigger.sql
select 'CREATE OR REPLACE ' from dual;
select text from user_source
where name = 'TRIGGERNAME';
select '/' from DUAL;
spool off
set feedback on
set heading on
set termout on
set linesize 100
set echo on

Will Robert Thompson, editor of the Financial Times, be installed as publisher of The Wall Street Journal by Rupert Murdoch? This remains to be seen after News Corporation passes the remaining regulatory hurdles it faces in acquiring Dow Jones. Sources cited by Guardian Unlimited say News Corporation has no official comment.

Link to Article at Guardian Unlimited

Since there is an extra day in 2004 (leap year), I plan to spend it taking the Polar Bear Plunge on February 29, 2004. This event helps raise money to benefit Special Olympics New Jersey.