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.
Apparently that applies to marriages involving goats as well. Such a shame. Who will think of the kids?
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.
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 the answer.
Digg's answer was to attempt to censor the users -- they ultimately failed.
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 went there, but there you go. Photos et cetera will go online just as soon as I manage to do something other than go to the office.
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A major freeway interchange in Oakland (that's a large dormitory town north of Silicon Valley) just had a oil tanker roll under it and catch fire. The road way basically melted. I imagine this will take months if not years to fix.
Thanks to everyone who came along to Grant and my talk this morning about slack and how we bootstrap MySQL servers. Here is the slide deck as promised.
Well, they're definitely thinking about getting started. Like last year I caught the VTA down -- it's hard to beat a $1.75 trip without having to worry about traffic. Registraton wasn't as smooth this year as last, for example I didn't get my free book (there didn't seem to be any attempt to hand those out to speakers). Whatever. I'm now waiting for the replication talk to start.