Monthly Archives: July 2002

Hectic weekend. Mel and Sharon got married and so did Dave and Claire. I wanted to go to both obviously but it turned out to be very difficult to motivate ourselves to drive 20 miles after enjoying the after-wedding meal and chat. I hope Dave and Claire don’t mind too much. 🙁
Thank you Sharon for mentioning me in your speech, it means a lot! *hug*
The night went really well, I haven’t enjoyed myself so much in a long time. Martina was absolutely gorgeous of course! Heads were fairly sore yesterday and didn’t do much at all though.

Both couples are off in Cyprus for the week. They chose the same country to honey moon in, both ladies wore the same engagement ring, and both had the same little bit of poetry on their booklet/invitation! Oh, and they both got engaged around the same time last year!

Dilbert on frequent shopper clubs. I joined Xtra Vision last week and had a quick glance through the application form. Martina looked at me strangely when I started reading the terms and conditions so I just filled in the form and rented out the DVD. At home I looked through it more carefully and noticed that Xtra Vision share my details to their partner companies as part of my membership. There was no opt-out, there was no check-box. *ggrrrr*
Last Friday I got a sample of Dove shower-gel in the post… *sigh*

The EBay Way – EBay will save the American economy. I may have visited EBay once, perhaps twice. I’ve never gone there looking for something to buy or sell, it was usually because I wanted to see how they sold stuff. (related to work). How many of you have never visited?

The View from Everest – very impressive it is too!

A clearing sky provides a starling view of the moon and a flash of lightening nearby.

XP for Linux! Well, sort of anyway. Eye candy looks pretty!

man condom – Thanks Derek!

MySQL Optimization by Jeremy Zawodny at Yahoo. He was instrumental in setting up their finance database. I remember when he introducted himself to the MySQL community everyone got very excited to hear that Yahoo was using MySQL. Since they serve much the same data as we do at work (but on a much larger scale!) this is a must read for me!

From Dangerousmeta: All About Smarty – The PHP Template Engine, I’m learning about this excellent templating engine now and well impressed by it so far. See my short post below on using Smarty to cache your current applications.