LingPipe Sentiment Analysis

I just completed my intro to LingPipe Basic Polarity Sentiment analysis. This is pretty good stuff. NLP Rocks!!!!

More to come...

Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!

What are the ways of the ant?

Off to the anthill.

Leading in Service to Others

You gotta do it with heart!

You have succeeded if your absence is as good as your presence; things just get done.

You see Joshua's who see a Moses in you.

Love Leadership or just don't be greedy

I shared my two cents with Mr. John Hope Bryant after reading his recently published book, Love Leadership. This is a great read for anyone. My comments were published in a blog post here http://www.johnhopebryant.com/john_hope_bryant_/2009/11/love-leadership-reader-testimonial.html

I couldn't have read this book at a better time after watching the Michael Moore's movie; Capitalism a love affair. They both point to greed as the cause of the current economic challenges.

Distributed and Scalable Non-Relational Database Systems

Fascinating read on non RDBMS distributed scalable databases.

http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7579/1.html

Forecast: First freeze and flakes for Twin Cities | Updraft | Minnesota Public Radio

Forecast: First freeze and flakes for Twin Cities Updraft Minnesota Public Radio

No doubt the weather is one of those things that cycle through each year. In this installment of 365 and again, I present the annual question of when is the first flake going to fall on the Minnesota soil.

Genealogy Logical Data Model (LDS)

This is a simple genealogy logical data model that I developed in 10 minutes. Excuse my ascii art.

I hope to build an application on top of it.

                           +---------------+
                           | FATHER        |
      +--------------------+---------------+
      | fathered           |               |
     -+-                   +---------------+
      ^                               v
+---------------------+              -+-
|PERSON               |               | father to
+---------------------+               |
|person_id            |---------------+
|~~~~~~~~~            |
|person_date_of_birth |
|person_place_of_birth|
|person_name          |---------------+
|person_details       |               | mother to
+---------------------+              -+-
      v                               ^
     -+-                   +---------------+
      | mothered           | MOTHER        |
      +--------------------+---------------+
                           |               |
                           +---------------+

This is how it reads

• About each person we can remember their person_id, person_date_of_birth, person_place_of_birth, person_name, person_details, person's father, person's mother, person mother to and person father to.
• About each mother we can remember the person, and people mothered.
• About each father we can remember the person, and people fathered.

One interesting this about this model is that a person can father and mother themselves. I hope this is not how life begun.