I love you, Akismet
Blogging used to be fun. Then it started to suck. Spam sucked. Life sucked. Now life is good. Spam is no more. Matt told me to use Akismet; I was skeptical. I am no longer skeptical. I love you,...
View ArticleBreakdown in MySQL Enterprise process
In the past few days, MySQL Community 5.0.41 was released. While reading through the changelog, I noticed the following entry: The patches for Bug #19370 and Bug #21789 were reverted. Upon looking at...
View ArticleHelp convince Dell to leverage LSI to Open Source MegaCli
I’ve just submitted “Leverage LSI to Open Source MegaCli” to the Dell IdeaStorm website: Dell makes some awesome and affordable hardware. Many new Dell machines have the PERC 5/i SAS RAID controller,...
View ArticleCitibank misunderstands mobile, sucks
So we’re sitting at our gate in the terminal in LAX, and Citibank has purchased some likely very expensive advertising space above our heads, for “CITI MOBILESM“. Purportedly, this would be a version...
View ArticleNetflix pricing disparity
I’m a little confused as to the unit pricing for Netflix. Their “unlimited” plans are as follows: 1 at a time = $8.99/mo = $8.9900 each 2 at a time = $13.99/mo = $6.9950 each 3 at a time = $16.99/mo =...
View ArticleOn Falcon and the need to feel wanted
MySQL has a new section on their site about MySQL 6.0, which they are now calling “ready for pre-production testing”. I’m not sure when this section appeared, but I don’t spend much time on the MySQL...
View ArticleYahoo! Mash: Officially Lame
A week ago I got a useless invite for Yahoo! Mash — useless since the service wasn’t open even by invitation yet, and required a Yahoo! Backyard (employee only) login. The service has now officially...
View ArticleYahoo! Alerts not updating RSS feeds?
I have been using Yahoo! Alerts to alert me to changes in my custom RSS feeds, crawled from CalTrans, for changes in the status of Interstate 80 over the Sierra. I noticed today that although my RSS...
View ArticleIndirection of SHOW commands between MySQL 4.1 and 5.1
Today, while helping someone find some of the code that implements SHOW VARIABLES I was reminded at how insanely complex it all got with the information_schema implementation and the changes to the...
View ArticleNine years later, Citibank’s fraud department is still self-defeating
Back in September 2005, I wrote Actually, No. about Citibank’s self-defeating fraud department, and the follow-up two months later Reply from Citibank which was just a form letter noting that they had...
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