Al Hoang

Looks like the Grand Challenge is finally under way. I’m still cheering for the
RPI Team (Team LoGHIQ) to do their best and kick some butt. They’re still
up for the QIDs (Qualification, Inspection, and Demonstration) sometime soon.
So if you’re cheering for underdogs here’s one to cheer for.

Seems the
Red Team which is the prized CMU team passed the QID (Qualification, Inspection, and Demonstration) already. Then again with the budget and people they’ve thrown on, it’d be an embarassment if they didn’t

The Grand Challenge Status Board

Michael Watkins gives an illuminating description of his tenure process (which ultimately resulted in a nay) at the Harvard Business School.

Mr. Watkins also gives some thoughts on why he feels HBS might be creaking at the seams:

I believe that the answers to these questions are, respectively, little no, and very much so. I further believe that this is the result of the “capture” of business schools (including unfortunately and increasingly HBS) by discipline-oriented academics who consume more value from their institutions than they create for them.

A very interesting read, especially if you’re interested in the academic process (it isn’t a breeze after you get your PhD like some imagine).

Read it yourself

Now you know

I was looking at installing MySQL on OS X and I was bouncing between either
fink, source compile myself, find some random person’s installer on the Internet
when lo’ an behold:

MySQL Corp offers downloads of binary packages for OS X. I’d like to think
that the company that hosts this project would know how to package MySQL
correctly so this is a no-brainer. (And if it does mess up, well I’ll know that
very soon too).

Go Get MySQL 4.0.x