The news is full of articles and posts about the corona virus. Before getting in panic mode, stop by the CDC “Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)” web page and get informed.
My wife and I follow and watch several YouTube channels. We are mostly interested in foods to prepare and consume and places to visit on our next holiday. Yesterday we watched a new episode on one channel that deals with food and travel in Sicily, Italy. The channel is hosted by a couple of Americans that have roots in Europe and Italy.
They had some interesting facts about how to make a disinfectant using alcohol, aloe vera and some scents. I was not going to mention the specific video, but as I am going over this post, I feel that it is missing. The video is named “SPECIAL EDITION: Coronavirus update from Sicily!”. Quite appropriate for the times we are living in. Continue reading “Sherlock and Anagrams”
Yesterday morning I watch most of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) webinar “OOPS! Learning from Surprise at Netflix”. The presenter was Lorin Hockstein who is a senior software engineer at Netflix. For what I was able to get out from the presentation is that when an issue in production appears, it is important to learn from it to make sure the code is updated to prevent the issue from ever happening again. That may require from simple changes to deeper design or even architectural modifications. 
Earlier today I was scrolling through YouTube videos and 
I just got off the phone with my youngest son. He was on his way to work. He calls every workday and I call him every weekend. It has become some type of tradition. Today the weather in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul is sunny and cold with the temperature at 11 F. In Madison, WI it is a few degrees warmer. 
Over the weekend my wife and I tried baking baba (Italian yeast cake) using a large mold. Typically baba is baked in individual small molds but it takes a while to grease and fill them. We tried for the first time using a large mold. All was going well until we put the mixer bowl covered with plastic in the oven with the lights on for it to ferment and double in size. After a couple hours the dough had pushed its way out of the bowl and spilled over the oven floor. We had to clean the mess before baking. We also moved the contents of the bowl into the large baking mold. 
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Hope you had a happy Thanksgiving Day with your family. As usual there is lots of anticipation and suddenly it is over.
It is Sunday at 07:36 AM in the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis. I try to get in at least a couple of 2-hour blocks each weekend day. I can see from my home office that the day is still dark although sunrise occurred at 07:14 AM.
I am writing a white paper on Agile. Hope to get done by the end of this week. I will be looking where to start posting it and future ones besides this blog.
It is Thursday April 11 and this area of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul has received since yesterday around noon to today around 04:00 PM about 10 inches of snow. Around noon today the snow stopped and we start receiving freezing rain. Schools are closed and there is very little traffic in the area.