New vote topic!

So Dan and I talked about this at length so I figured it deserved some time in the spotlight with a new vote topic! So the issue was brought up about whether it is ok to bring reading material in a public restroom when you have to, well, drop the …

The Carwash of Doom

So now that it is all over I figured it was time to blog about it. A few weeks ago Corey and I made our yearly trip to RenFest. This time we were going to meet up with Sean and Alex. It was their first time to go and I …

I’m Free! No More MySpace!!!

I’m free! I finally cancelled my MySpace account! After getting another "friend whore" request from someone trying to sell my Cialis, I finally dropped the hammer. It is been a long time coming. For many reasons: MySpace devalues important friendly relationships. This is the single most important reason for me …

JOINs VS ENUMs

So last week MySQL was on site at work for MySQL DBA Certification prep. class (which was very awesome and highly recommended, by the way) and one of the things that came up was how much faster enumerated types would be over using JOINs, say to store things like the …