If you don't have a sick mind, stop reading this now.
Oh, good. You're sill here. :-)
Thanks to jwz, I ran across this:
Purely in the interests of science, I have replaced the word "wand" with "wang" in the first Harry Potter Book. Let's see the results...
Damn. That's some funny stuff.
I hadn't seen this before, but it's quite amusing (and true). Every once in a while, you need to Flip the Bozo Bit.
(Insert story of inept co-workers here.)
I'm half expecting Derek to recount a story about someone from his days at Yahoo. Or his current job. Or just about any job he's every had. Derek's funny that way.
The fine folks at Yahoo! Buzz have launched 5 new feeds:
We don't have an official feedback channel, so feel free to post comments here. I'll make sure that the folks involved see them.
See Also: Yahoo! Buzz RSS Feeds
After a bit of a delay, I've also posted the slides to the MySQL Query Benchmarking talk I gave at OSCON last Friday. They're available in HTML and PDF. The PDF sucks and I'm not sure if I should blame OpenOffice or ps2pdf for that.
If you're a Yahoo engineer, expect to see this as a Tech Talk (in some form) in the not too distant future.
See Also: Mike Kruckenberg's notes.
After a bit of a delay, I've posted the slides to the MySQL Scaling Pains talk I gave at OSCON last Friday. They're available in HTML and PDF. The PDF sucks and I'm not sure if I should blame OpenOffice or ps2pdf for that.
If you're a Yahoo engineer, expect to see this as a Tech Talk (in some form) in the not too distant future.
See Also: Radwin's notes and Mike Kruckenberg's notes.
Oh, what the heck. I say we elect him if he runs. I think it'd be terribly amusing. We don't have enough amusement in politics these days.
Update: Welcome Google, Yahoo, and other search engine users! Perhaps you ought to read this for futher evidence that Google isn't as smart as you might think. Heck, the fact that you probably came here from a Google search should be evidence enough, right?
From the excellent interview with Jim Gray:
The first thing to keep in mind is it's not over yet. At the FAST [File and Storage Technologies] conference about a year-and-a-half ago, Mark Kryder of Seagate Research was very apologetic. He said the end is near; we only have a factor of 100 left in density--then the Seagate guys are out of ideas. So this 200-gig disk that you're holding will soon be 20 terabytes, and then the disk guys are out of ideas. The database guys are already out of ideas!
Very good stuff. Go read it.
Thanks to Phil for the pointer.