I was going to put something more creative for the title. I was trying to think of what Dragon Warrior (that old NES RPG game) said when you leveled up. I always thought it was grammatically weird…something like "You have increased in level" Anyhoo, I took my RHCE exam earlier …
Lately I’ve become a huge follower of Above & Beyond’s A State of Trance. It can be digested in a number of formats including a podcast. So I’ve been listening to that on the way to and from work religiously. They play some amazing stuff too! Trouble is, the stuff …
I am writing this on my new iPhone! I was a bit worried about the cost of the data plan, but by lowering our voice plan closer to what we actually use, and with my Rackspace discount, it should not go up much. I was surprised that there were still …
I’m not usually a spontaneous person, but last weekend I made an exception. Brandon, Amy, Corey and I all went to Comedy Sportz San Antonio last Friday. A friend of mine from work does improv there. It was damn funny, by the way! Afterwards we went to dinner and started …
I ran into a very interesting issue with a customer recently. The customer was storing JPEGs in MySQL (as BLOBs obviously) and was wanting to setup some additional MySQL slaves. Nothing crazy there. So I did the normal steps of scheduling a mysqldump with the –all-databases and –master-data options. Trouble …
I was thinking about this while trying to go to sleep last night. It’s been some time since I saw the final episode of Battlestar Galactica, but it keeps popping back into my head. Why did they choose to end this supremely good show, with all its twists and turns, …
It’s been quite a while, but the Internet Ray-tracing Competition has finally been brought back to life! Looks like the new site is under testing. Woohoo!
So this may already be well-known, but I sure didn’t know about it until today. I’m hoping to post a few more of these interesting tidbits, many that I picked up from my RHCE training that I was in this week. On that note, I had to say our trainer …