Recently, Rackspace acquired SliceHost, a virtual server vendor of sorts. I hadn\’t really looked much into it until today when some guys were talking about it at work. So I figured I would give it a spin. My first impression? Amazed! SliceHost doesn\’t really have a whole lot of marketing …
It was actually three weeks ago, but we made our yearly trip to Magnolio for the Texas Renaissance Festival. This year was a year of a few firsts. It was the first time Brandon and Amy went, the first time Corey and I camped (instead of staying in a hotel), …
For a fairly long time, I have found myself brutally critical of Disney. There’s multiple reasons behind it but the biggest, by far, is what I like to call The Disney Formula. Not sure what that is? All one needs to do is watch most popular Disney animated movies over …
While my fear of public restrooms was conquered a long time ago, I have to admit, I still get a little nervous when some dude decides to pee in the urinal right next to me when all the other urinals are free. Urinals at the same height no less. I …
I got some really awesome feedback from Giuseppe (the Data Charmer) in my preivous post and it gave me a few ideas I thought I would share. One of the really nice things he did in his article about partitioning was to test partitions with the ARCHIVE engine. His results …
Now that the elections are over, the old vote topic didn’t have as much weight, so I thought I would change things back around to MySQL. Namely, what’s your favorite feature? As for the old topic, things were about what I expected: Who are you voting for this November? Obama …
Until now, I have always have a fantastic experience with Amazon. They aren’t the only online store I use, but certainly one I use frequently. Last week, I ordered a 62mm circular polarizer from Amazon. I was pretty excited since I haven’t had much experience with one and they had …
While it took some time to get things sorta out with building MySQL 5.1 with the right parameters to get partitioning support working, I finally was able to get a working install and had some time to play around with this new intriguing MySQL 5.1 feature hands on. The results …
I found this on Digg and couldn’t resist but to post it. Using the Lego Mindstorm kit, some dude(s) built a Safe out of LEGOs! It even has motion sensors and an auto-locking door. Pretty sweet!