Our Patron Saint

[Pogle]

Whilst researching saints with Pogle jr to help her choose her Conformation name, I came across Saint Isidore of Seville who is the the patron saint of computers, computer users, computer programmers and the Internet.

http://www.scborromeo.org/saints/isidores.htm

apparently he "gave his work a structure akin to that of the database"!

[cailin maith]

Whilst researching saints with Pogle jr to help her choose her Conformation name, I came across Saint Isidore of Seville who is the the patron saint of computers, computer users, computer programmers and the Internet.

http://www.scborromeo.org/saints/isidores.htm

apparently he "gave his work a structure akin to that of the database"!

When I made my confirmation, one of the girls took that name... she had the books out in the library and just closed her eyes and picked a saint

[EternalOptimist]

apparently he "gave his work a structure akin to that of the database"!

' His elder brother Leander was his immediate predecessor in the Metropolitan See of Seville; whilst a younger brother St. Fulgentius presided over the Bishopric of Astigi. His sister Florentina was a nun, and is said to have ruled over forty convents and one thousand religious'

Blooming heck, it must have been a relational database

[Mich the Tester]

' His elder brother Leander was his immediate predecessor in the Metropolitan See of Seville; whilst a younger brother St. Fulgentius presided over the Bishopric of Astigi. His sister Florentina was a nun, and is said to have ruled over forty convents and one thousand religious'

Blooming heck, it must have been a relational database

You mean it was full of bugs, un-normalised data, unintended redundancies, built using obscure unintelligible code that he’d outsourced to the orient and version 8.0.3.0.31a was not compatible with 8.0.3.0.31b? Good stuff, he obviously provided the first contracts for testers.

[Menelaus]

For those of us who spend time on the bench (luckily for me, not more than three weeks at a time in the past seven years) - St Jude?

[TheRefactornator]

The patron saint of computers??..I though that was St Bill Gates because he's managed to turn 64k of RAM into at least 4Gb.

[cailin maith]

For those of us who spend time on the bench (luckily for me, not more than three weeks at a time in the past seven years) - St Jude?

Ah, the patron saint of hopeless cases....

[Menelaus]

Ah, the patron saint of hopeless cases....

Yup.

Sounds like my first marriage.

[Pogle]

When I made my confirmation, one of the girls took that name... she had the books out in the library and just closed her eyes and picked a saint

Pogle Jr has taken it all very seriously and has chosen St Ambrose she can be a bit Geeky at times .
Did you do yours when you were 13? At my daughters school they get confirmed at 8 before their 1st Holy Communion, which seemed a bit odd to me.

[cailin maith]

Yup.

Sounds like my first marriage.

Mine too.... maybe we should have had him preside over the ceremony!!

Nevermind, without that first wedding and marriage, I wouldn't be who I am today do feck it... it's all part of lifes rich tapestry!




Oh my God, I think that was the most sensible thing I have ever said about being married before.... maybe I am ill