February 28th, 2006 in Fire (Social) ·
With the local government election only two days away, I’ve been quite impressed with the coverage by local blogs.
The SA Blog Awards site lists 10 nominations for best SA site about politics (and for some reason I’ve been nominated, albeit under the wrong name).
Looking at the local government election coverage by each of the nominated blogs is interesting (and you can use it to decide who to vote for if you wish).
Fodder doesn’t have much, the too-good-to-be-missed near-exclusion of the ACDP being the highlight.
Jonty Fisher has no coverage that I can see…
February 24th, 2006 in Metal (Technical) ·
My recent article, MySQL’s response to Oracle’s moves, was Slashdotted. We all know what that means.
Luckily I host in the US, with layeredtech…
February 24th, 2006 in Fire (Social) ·
It’s sad, but not surprising, that the recent power outages in Cape Town have led to short-sighted calls for more nuclear energy.
There’s a better way to solve it…
February 24th, 2006 in Fire (Social) ·
Thanks to Politics.za I have seen the light…
February 22nd, 2006 in Fire (Social) ·
After this morning’s A Libertarian/Anarchist Experiment post, I’ve been thinking about another sort of anarchist experiment. Cape Town city…
February 22nd, 2006 in Fire (Social) ·
Thanks again to Muti I found an interesting article by Yumi Kim, entitled Stateless in Somalia, and Loving It.
It’s great to get a different perspective from the usual surface skim, such as Somalia has been without an effective central government since President Siad Barre was overthrown in 1991…
February 19th, 2006 in Metal (Technical) ·
I’ve recently written two articles on this topic for Database Journal, the earlier, written after the InnoDB purchase, entitled Oracle’s purchase of InnoDB, their release of Oracle Express, and the effect on MySQL, and the most recent, just after the Sleepycat purchase, entitled Pressure on MySQL increases as Oracle purchases Sleepycat, with more to come.
Since I only do a monthly column for Database Journal, and things change quite quickly, I thought I’d post a few more thoughts on the topic.
The news is coming fast and furious, but there’re too few in-depth analyses, a gap I tried to fill with my articles…
February 18th, 2006 in Water (Personal) ·
There’s a certain skill to asking for help. I’m not very good at it. I tend to dislike asking for help, and the reliance on someone else it seems to indicate. Sometimes I manage to figure out the issue myself, and feel slightly more warm and fuzzy than I would have had someone else fed it to me on a spoon…
February 15th, 2006 in Water (Personal) ·
Now that Valentine’s Day is over, and you can safely buy gifts without blatantly buying into the whole marketing machine, I thought I’d point out some environment-friendly sex toys…
February 15th, 2006 in Wood (Spiritual) ·
Anger clouds your vision. Anger is like a skin irritation. Anger is a bitter taste in your mouth that makes all the food you eat taste bad. Anger wears you out.
Don’t be fooled. Anger makes you feel less, not more, alive…
