Hi. I am doing a select like this in MySQL 5: select * from foo where bar rlike ‘(.*),(.*)’; The specific example here is made up. Anyway, I’d like to be able to get to the matched text from bar, like I can with various languages regexp libraries. Is this functionality exposed at all in…
Month: May 2007
Apparently I am ruder in the office than I realise
Some quotes from the Dublin office last week make me think that I might owe “Master N” (as he will be called) an apology. Master N, you’re nothing like a butterfly. You don’t have wings.
On Virgin Atlantic premium economy
Welcome to Mikal’s badly organised travel tips. On the trip to Dublin I flew Virgin Atlantic premium economy. That’s kind of like anyone else’s business class, given the classes on Virgin are economy, premium economy, and upper class. It’s much cheaper than anyone else’s business class fare to Heathrow though. I thought that premium economy…
Dublin trip
I occasionally wonder to myself why I don’t blog more these days, and I think the answer is that I’m not convinced that other people would be interested in what happens to me from day to day. For example, when writing the books, all that is really involved is a massive amount of time in…
Book printed!
I got off the phone with Catherine a few hours ago, and apparently my copies of the book have arrived at home (I’m in Dublin for work at the moment). That’s very exciting. Looks like now would be a good time to buy it, while it’s shipping soon and still on special.
A large percentage of marriages fail
Apparently that applies to marriages involving goats as well. Such a shame. Who will think of the kids?
Australian Health Insurance
It sounds to me like it’s time for some sort of wiki-based health insurance comparison service. As someone who has recently been insured in Australia and the US though, I should point out the Australian system is way less confusing than the US one.
Australian teachers advocate a China style firewall for Australian internet users
SMH article and the actual site It’s logical really: Some Australian teachers are perceived as sucking by their students The students rate them on line, thus exercising free speech The teachers can’t face a life of people knowing that other people think they suck Teacher’s federation proposes some crazy firewall scheme Hurrah! Censorship is always…
What do you do when the users who generate your content revolt?
Digg’s answer was to attempt to censor the users — they ultimately failed.
Dublin!
I’m in Ireland at the moment for work — I’ve been here a couple of days now (which might explain why I am online at 4am local time, I am having some trouble sleeping). Anyways, it’s nice here. I wasn’t really expecting to like it after how much I disliked London the last time I…