Nuclear accidents
Civilian nuclear accidents, and military accidents are covered well on Wikipedia I see.
Thoughts on the first day of the MySQL user’s conference
So, I attended the first day of the MySQL user's conference yesterday, which was the tutorial day. Overall I was fairly impressed. Registration was easy, the actual rooms presentations are given in are comfortable, the PA system seemed to work after some initial problems in the morning tutorial I attended. The conference center seems to be big on retirees hanging around, which I thought was weird. Each room comes with a little old lady, whose job appears to be to read a fiction novel at the door. I really have no idea what else they were achieving. They seemed to be having fun though. I did find it a bit odd that the only drinks provided by the catering staff during the day were acidic, and most of them caffinated. For example, we had choices between coffee, tea, soda water, coke, diet coke, pepsi and diet pepsi. Some fruit juice or even plain water would have been a nice change by the end of the day. The food was good, unless you're a vegan like Stewart at which time the catering staff looked confused and had to go off and get him something special (which didn't look all that special…
Thoughts on the first day of the MySQL user’s conference
So, I attended the first day of the MySQL user's conference yesterday, which was the tutorial day. Overall I was fairly impressed. Registration was easy, the actual rooms presentations are given in are comfortable, the PA system seemed to work after some initial problems in the morning tutorial I attended. The conference center seems to be big on retirees hanging around, which I thought was weird. Each room comes with a little old lady, whose job appears to be to read a fiction novel at the door. I really have no idea what else they were achieving. They seemed to be having fun though. I did find it a bit odd that the only drinks provided by the catering staff during the day were acidic, and most of them caffinated. For example, we had choices between coffee, tea, soda water, coke, diet coke, pepsi and diet pepsi. Some fruit juice or even plain water would have been a nice change by the end of the day. The food was good, unless you're a vegan like Stewart at which time the catering staff looked confused and had to go off and get him something special (which didn't look all that special…
Tangential research to my own
This research is tangentially related to the PhD I have take a year off. It's also pretty important if you plan on putting any pictures you take online anonymously.
Links from Rasmus’ PHP talk
The talk, and the demo are both very cool.
Links from Rasmus’ PHP talk
The talk, and the demo are both very cool.
My first sighting of the ImageMagick book in the wild
My ImageMagick book is for sale at the MySQL user's conference trade show. There are only a few copies there, but it is nice to actually see it out there. I wonder if they'll sell any copies?
I won a radio shark and headphones!
All I had to do was fill in a speaker evaluation form from yesterday, and now I've won a radio shark and headphones. Nice.
I won a radio shark and headphones!
All I had to do was fill in a speaker evaluation form from yesterday, and now I've won a radio shark and headphones. Nice.
MySQL Workbench
Was just introduced in the keynote and looks kinda cool. It isn't packaged in Ubuntu yet, which is a shame...