Posted by Gregg Kellogg Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:51:00 GMT
Here are photos from our weekend at Nick’s Cove in Tamales Bay with Jen & Ty. The first 9 are from a trip I took there in 2002, well before it was restored. The rest are from the other day. The place you see in the first photo, is actually the “Big Rock” villa we stayed in, before renovation. The Warf has been completely rebuilt and extended. Still very picturesque.
Posted by Gregg Kellogg Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:07:00 GMT
Just got back from Wakatobi, in Indonesia near Bali. Great diving, with fantastic reefs. I got some nice shots, I think you’ll see.
The primary album is Wakatobi 2008 with a separate album of the wonderful people that I traveled with or encountered.
A Youtube video slideshow can be found here
Posted by Gregg Kellogg Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:08:00 GMT
Just got back from an interesting trip to San Clemente island. Not too many pictures this time, but some nice action shots of Sea Lions at Santa Barbara Island.
Posted by Gregg Kellogg Thu, 15 May 2008 14:48:00 GMT
Recently, my good friend and local traffic reporting luminary, Stan Burford, got me up in the KGO Radio Traffic helicopter on a beautiful day where I could put my Nikon D200 through it’s paces. I think you’ll enjoy the results. We’re blessed here in the Bay Area with some of the most beautiful scenery in the country.
Picture can be found through the photography page on my site, or directly here
The ships you see are known as the Mothball Fleet. They include the Glomar Explorer, famous for attempting the recovery of a Soviet Submarine during the Cold War, and the USS Iowa battleship.
Other notable highlights wereThanks to Gary and Terry (reporter and pilot) for making this a most memorable experience!
Gregg
Posted by Gregg Kellogg Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:36:00 GMT
Here are some pictures from our trip to Lake Como and Provence.
Enjoy,
Gregg & Rebecca
Posted by Gregg Kellogg Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:59:00 GMT
Here are some pictures from my recent trip to the Channel Islands including San Clemente, Catalina and Santa Cruz Islands.
Enjoy,
Gregg
Posted by Gregg Kellogg Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:44:00 GMT
Here are some pictures from my recent trip to the Channel Islands, including two days at San Miguel Island.
Enjoy,
Gregg
Posted by Gregg Kellogg Sat, 19 May 2007 23:10:00 GMT
Related to the interesting talk at a recent NBRug meeting on Ruport, I’ve been looking at doing data warehousing in Ruby. Fortunately, Anthony Eden has beaten me to the punch with ActiveWarehouse.
For those unfamiliar with Data Warehousing, the concepts are basically to create a series of facts that are indexed buy multiple dimensions. A fact is typically an integer (eg, sales amount) with data relating to the fact expressed in dimensions. (Note that in some cases, you can have a Factless Fact table where the information is entirely in the dimensions). Dimensions provide different types of data relating to the fact (e.g., date & time of entry, user, product, location, etc.), so a fact table has a column for each ’’dimension’’ with a column for the fact scalar value itself.
The ’’dimension’’ tables contain an id index column, a column for the fact value (e.g., timestamp for date & time) and columns for each ’’summary’’ to be associated with the dimension (e.g., day of week, day of month, month, year, hour minute, ...).
At this point, queries can be performed by joining the dimension and fact tables and summarizing (or counting) the scalar fact value against conditions against the dimension tables (e.g., sales per year by person and region).
Typically, this data is pre-summarized in ’’cubes’’ with summary tables that contain the results of these summary queries.
The ActiveWarehouse plugin contains everything necessary to define, populate and report on this data.
I expect to be using this to hold information on user listening habits for MP3 files.
Gregg Kellogg
Posted by Gregg Kellogg Thu, 10 May 2007 14:12:00 GMT
Pictures from dive trip to Bonaire in May 2007.
Posted by Gregg Kellogg Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:05:00 GMT
Here are the sessions Ill be attending at RailsConf. Hope to see you there.
Gregg
