June 30, 2009

KFC Tortures Chickens

http://dragyoutohell.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/80680839.jpg heh
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

June 29, 2009

Cook the Book: Perfect French Fries

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/06/perfect-french-fries-recipe.html YUM!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

June 26, 2009

jwz - Palm WebOS Dali Clock

http://jwz.livejournal.com/1057786.html "Let's take a moment to ponder this version and the Alto version, and just how many wasted instructions, layers of abstraction, frameworks, toolkits and outright cruft have gotten between the algorithm and the frame buffer in the intervening twenty-seven years."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

Gearman Manual

http://www.gearman.org/doku.php?id=manual off to a good start!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

June 25, 2009

Social Web Blog: See who's visiting to your site with the Footprints gadget

http://googlesocialweb.blogspot.com/2009/06/see-whos-visiting-to-your-site-with.html it's google's version of MyBlogLog -- one of the startups Yahoo bought and managed to stifle, confuse, and frustrate. sigh.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

DejaVu Fonts

http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page these are most excellent
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

Yahoo branded bongs?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellan/3661336268/ hahahaha... dopers
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Grilling: Barbecue Beans

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/06/grilling-sides-barbecue-beans.html This sounds yummie
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

June 24, 2009

MySQL Performance on Sun Storage 7000

http://blogs.sun.com/dlutz/entry/mysql_on_sun_storage_7000 Hm, interesting reading...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

June 23, 2009

Inside the World's Greatest Keyboard - PC World

http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,147939/printable.html best. keyboard. ever.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

Sweet Potato, Eggplant, and Spinach Madras Curry

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/06/dinner-tonight-sweet-potato-eggplant-spinach-curry.html I want to try this sometime soon
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

Chinese Five-Spice Noodles with Broccoli

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/06/dinner-tonight-five-spice-noodles-with-broccoli-recipe.html Mmmm... this looks good
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

June 22, 2009

Do Programmers Optimize... Life?

http://www.cforcoding.com/2009/06/do-programmers-optimize-life.html wow, that sounds way too familiar...
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

Hello Facebook!

http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2009/06/hello-facebook.html#comment-form Mark Callaghan goes to Facebook! Wow.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

Gwibber

https://launchpad.net/gwibber Gwibber is an open source microblogging client for GNOME developed with Python and GTK. It supports Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, Facebook, Flickr, Digg, and RSS. (via jmason)
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

June 20, 2009

uShip - The Online Shipping Marketplace

http://www.uship.com/ apparently good for moving larger things long distances
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

A gentle introduction to Moose

http://www.catalyzed.org/2009/06/a-gentle-introduction-to-moose.html the first useful, readable Moose post that I've read... where are the others?
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

June 19, 2009

Finding Similar Items with Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Python, and Hadoop Streaming

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=2294 this reminds me that I was to play with something similar soon
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

June 18, 2009

Who's Really Winning the Search Race? - InternetNews.com

http://www.internetnews.com/search/article.php/3825856/Whos+Really+Winning+the+Search+Race.htm "Instead, it's Craigslist that leads in percent growth according to comScore. The online classifieds site posting a 12 percent jump in queries from 583 million to 651 million from April to May."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

Windows Internet Explorer 8: Get the facts

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/get-the-facts/browser-comparison.aspx facts? FAIL
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

C64 Twitter client

http://hackaday.com/2009/06/15/c64-twitter-client/ heh
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

June 16, 2009

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Craigslist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R32aFmxL9HY Heh
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

Drizzle: Rethinking the MySQL Database Kernel (Linux Magazine)

http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7379/ "Drizzle is a re-thought and re-worked version of the MySQL kernel designed specifically for high-performance, high-concurrency environments. In this exclusive article, MySQL guru Jeremy Zawodny takes an inside look at the goals and state of Drizzle development. "
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 AM

Gearman Pluggable Protocol

http://www.oddments.org/?p=68 woo!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 AM

June 15, 2009

Read-optimize your source code

http://www.brendel.com/consulting/blog/2009/06/read-optimized-source-code.html I agree 5000%
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Bug #347074 in gnome-rdp (Ubuntu): “cannot run G-RDP after upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 6”

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-rdp/+bug/347074 this just hit me too... grr.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

[ubuntu] compiz not working after 9.04 upgrade [Archive] - Ubuntu Forums

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1133842.html this hit my Thinkpad T61 but that "fixes" it
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

Programming Paradigmns on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9D558D49CA734A02 "Programming Paradigms (CS107) introduces several programming languages, including C, Assembly, C++, Concurrent Programming, Scheme, and Python"
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

June 13, 2009

Focaccia Bread

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Focaccia-Bread/Detail.aspx We made this today. It was yum
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

June 11, 2009

Looking for a fun evening - m4w

http://atlanta.craigslist.org/cas/1216417007.html "...You need to bring Dutch Wooden Clogs and a white Duck."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

June 08, 2009

XtraDB: InnoDB on Steroids

http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7356/1.html my second column is up
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

June 05, 2009

IBM Used notebooks - United States

http://www-304.ibm.com/shop/americas/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/default/CategoryDisplay?categoryId=2576396&storeId=1&catalogId=-840&langId=-1 I didn't know this existed... cool!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

June 03, 2009

NILFS: A File System to Make SSDs Scream

http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7345/1.html very interesting... I hadn't heard of NILFS before
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

June 02, 2009

YouTube XL

http://www.youtube.com/xl new UI to use from the couch
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

Surprise Wedding Reception at Improv Everywhere

http://improveverywhere.com/2009/06/02/surprise-wedding-reception/ awesome
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

GitHub Firewall Install

http://fi.github.com/ run GitHub inside your company... cool!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

SHA-1 and HMAC-SHA1 Routines in Pure Lua

http://regex.info/blog/lua/sha1 Jeffrey saves you some time if you need this
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

June 01, 2009

The State of MySQL

http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7342 lookie there... I have a weekly column in Linux Magazine again
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM