One, wikipedia rocks. Especially for technical topics I previously found hard to research like image encoding formats like YUV. Kudos to those who write pages there. Secondly, is it just me or is the history of television formats fascinating. For example: The adoption of SECAM in Eastern Europe has been attributed to Cold War political…
Month: May 2006
Phoenix for business
You know that somewhere has to be special when people tell you that the good points of a place are that land is cheap, it’s geologically stable, and there are lots of banks. Well, that’s Phoenix and the bit they’re not mentioning is that you’re in a desert. It’s warm. Really warm. Oh, and dry….
Mental note: get an eccentric father
Then I too can get out of traffic fines.
Greg likes MySQL cluster, oh and Stewart’s talk
Greg Linden (Google watcher, search engine dude, ex-Amazon) saw Stewart Smith’s talk on Google Video about MySQL cluster, and likes the idea. That’s cool. Time for more content on Google Video?
Twisted conch
It seems to me that every time I go to write some networking code in Python, the twisted guys have got there before me. Today’s adventures are involving twisted conch, which seems very cool. The documentation is a bit patchy though.
Proposition 82
California has this strange direct funding system, where the electorate can mandate a given amount of funding for a specific line item, and not involve the politicians in the future decision making. Wikipedia doesn’t have an article on proposition 82 yet (I might make one…), but here is an example of a previous proposition. Proposition…
Interesting: Vote on other sites with your links
I find the vote links proposal quite interesting. I wonder if anyone has adopted it?
Buy Toshiba!
It certainly seems to be working out for the best for Rory: When I fired up the machine for the first time to make sure he did everything right and it wouldn’t explode in my face, I couldn’t help but notice that I wasn’t getting any WiFi signal. I told him what was wrong. He…
MySQL Tech Talks
Three intrepid MySQLers came to Google after the user conference to give internal tech talks. They were kind enough to agree to us hosting them for other people to see. The first two are up, so I’ll mention those now, and put a link to the last one when it’s available… Click on the thumbnail…
Interesting quote
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked…A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system. John Gall via Marc on the O’Reilly radar.