Archive For July, 2002
Hectic weekend. Mel and Sharon got married and so did Dave and Claire. I wanted to go to both obviously but it turned out to be very difficult to motivate ourselves to drive 20 miles after enjoying the after-wedding meal and chat. I hope Dave and Claire don’t mind too much. Thank you Sharon for [...]
Dilbert on frequent shopper clubs. I joined Xtra Vision last week and had a quick glance through the application form. Martina looked at me strangely when I started reading the terms and conditions so I just filled in the form and rented out the DVD. At home I looked through it more carefully and noticed [...]
Personal weblogs cover such an amazing number of topics. The Blogger “Next Blog!” function led me to plenty of good stuff, such as Triple Dub which led me to photo.net and some emotive, powerful and intriguing photographs.
The EBay Way – EBay will save the American economy. I may have visited EBay once, perhaps twice. I’ve never gone there looking for something to buy or sell, it was usually because I wanted to see how they sold stuff. (related to work). How many of you have never visited?
The View from Everest – very impressive it is too! A clearing sky provides a starling view of the moon and a flash of lightening nearby.
Seen on IRC, “Colm: yeah, but does it all really matter? we’re all about to be killed by a big, dumb rock. and even if we survive bush, there’s that asteroid in 2019.” hehe.
MySQL Optimization by Jeremy Zawodny at Yahoo. He was instrumental in setting up their finance database. I remember when he introducted himself to the MySQL community everyone got very excited to hear that Yahoo was using MySQL. Since they serve much the same data as we do at work (but on a much larger scale!) [...]
