Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

Rained Five Days

analysis
Feb 13, 20081 min

Last Friday I mentioned that I was singing the Update Blues. My version was too scatological to print, so I challenged you readers to write your own. What did I get? Limericks. Feh! The horrible weather we're having on the East Coast reminds me of a classic 12-bar Delta blues number. Was it Blind Lemon who sang it? It rained five days and the sky was dark as night Oh, it rained five days and the sky was dark as

Last Friday I mentioned that I was singing the Update Blues. My version was too scatological to print, so I challenged you readers to write your own.

What did I get? Limericks. Feh!

The horrible weather we’re having on the East Coast reminds me of a classic 12-bar Delta blues number. Was it Blind Lemon who sang it?

It rained five days and the sky was dark as night

Oh, it rained five days and the sky was dark as night

But my mama’s in the kitchen so’s I know everythin’s alright.

By the way, this month’s Tuesday Windows and Office updates were even more annoying than I expected. Not as annoying as the iTunes update du jour, but still not the seamless automatic process one might hope would happen in the wee hours, with the exception of just one of my Windows Vista machines.

Rained five days.

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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