What I Found Interesting: September 24, 2025

Green-colored copper sculpture of girl laying down on her stomach on the ground reading a book, brown mulch surround the sculpture, green-leafed white-flowered shrubs in the background.

Coffee filters providing floodproofing for endangered birds, a successful treatment for Huntington’s disease, and the Seine river in Paris cooling 800 buildings in summer are a few of the interesting stories I’ve read and enjoyed in the past month.

I hope you enjoy them, too!

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Yesterday – A Database Administrator’s Backup Song

A white sheet of paper with a headline of Yesterday: a DBA's backup song with lyrics from the first two stanzas of the song:

Decluttering my physical file cabinet this week brought a smile to my face when I found a print copy of something I saved years ago, but is still appropriate today.

Not sure when I saved it, but I’m thinking it may have been when I was volunteering with Habitat for Humanity Detroit in the late 1990’s to mid 2000’s.

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