I could have sworn there was a MaxDB MySQL already in the wild with extra options such as innoDB compiled in and such but Jeremy posted an announcement about the real thing a few days ago (yes, still catching up!)
Looks good – views, cursors, stored procedures, triggers.. I’ll hopefully have a play in the next few weeks. Triggers could certainly be useful for WP plugins!
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Back from Madrid
Ya know that feeling after a really great holiday? Yup, depression! Despite that, my stay in Madrid was just the tonic I needed for the ill effects of my life and I’m feeling much better.
I had a blast while I was over there. I got really good news from home (Get well soon Sharon!), and we celebrated ’till closing in an Irish pub on the last night. My head was a bit sore the next morning unfortunately. hehe.
The trip back was mostly uneventful. My shoes set off the security alarm in Madrid again, but at Stansted where they seem to be a lot more serious about security (or maybe it’s because I understood the security announcements..) I took them off and walked through without a hitch.
The fun started on the Ryanair flight home. The captain informed us that the weather in Cork was bad, that visibility was at about 500m, where 1500m is required, that equipment had failed in Cork Airport and we might have to go onwards to Shannon. This raised a chorus of groans and questions from my fellow passengers but there was nothing we could do. Shortly afterwards however the “Fasten Seatbelts” sign came on in preperation for landing in Cork. You should re-read the first line of this paragraph – those are the things that were going through my head as we descended. Clouds flashed by my window, the plane was buffeted by strong winds and everyone went quiet. Suddenly a “beep beep, beep beep” came from the back of the plane! Someone left their phone on! FFS! The steward came on the speaker system asking that all phones be turned off. I was thinking, “ok, the pilot has to do a difficult instrument landing, and some idiot has a phone on.. argh!”
We came lower, and lower. The fog disappated, and I spotted a few house lights from my window seat. The plane was still being rocked by winds however. I kept a lookout, and watched below for any sign when I spotted the blue lights of the runway. We were home! Yyyeeeesssss! Only a few more feet to go!
Suddenly the engines roared as the pilot piled on the power, the nose of the plane lifted again and the welcoming blue lights disappeared far behind. Everyone was silent for several moments until the captain informed us that the tail winds were too strong and were “outside operating parameters”. Because of the equipment failure at the airport they couldn’t make a landing in the other direction. We were headed toward Shannon Airport.
3 hours later I got home, after a trip in a bus with alcohol soaked seats and a bus driver who took his time driving..
Madrid’s a great city. There’s lots to see and do there. The nightlife is great! I visited El Prado on my last day and was awe-struck by some of the paintings. I’ve a “couple” of photos I want to put online here. Hopefully at the weekend, so make sure you come back next week!
Thank you Cachu, Meme, Alex, Andrea, Kristina, Sascha, My and everyone else – truelly an international group for a short while!
It's a little cold…
I’m out taking night shots of sights close to the appartment. It’s not quite as cold as it is at home, but standing around in one place looking into the camera takes it’s toll.
I had coffee in the most amazing cafe this afternoon with Cachu – the place is called “The Secret Garden” and it oozes atmosphere! Prices were closer to those at home though, but it was jammed 5 minutes after opening!
Good news! I learned some Spanish last night! I can now order a “whiskey and coca cola” although I usually mumble my way through “and” because it´s probably “y” or something. heh.
So, when you come to Spain, forget the over priced Irish bars (pint of Heineken will cost you in the region of €4!) and make friends with some of the locals. You’ll have a ball!
Heeellllloooooo from Madrid!
Believe it or not, it´s a wet Madrid I´m writing this from! It´s been mostly overcast the last few days and this morning the heavens opened up. “Ah, just like home!” hehe.
Night life is, well, bloody good here! I´ve been out the last few nights, twice getting back to the appartment at 5am! I blame Andrea. He´s an Italian guy in Cachu´s Japanese class with the most amazing English accent! The first night we talked on a bench for 2 hours after we were kicked out of the pub, then we went wandering, looking for some of his friends! Madrid is very, very busy at 4am in the morning!
No idea what´s happening tonight, but I hope it revolves around food and drink!
I´ll be back in Ireland on Wednesday, I checked my spam count, and there´s twice as much spam as regular mail, already hitting 7MB of email in my spam folder! Spammers – you´re losing!
So, until Thursday, adios!
Well, I'm off, take care of the monsters and be good
I’m off to Madrid tomorrow morning. Can’t wait as I know I’ll have a blast, but for various reasons I wish I wasn’t going. 🙁
Anyway, Simon linked to two articles on css layout that I have to read when I get back.
I may post some photos while I’m away but don’t hold your breath. See you back here in a week for definite!
Gossip…
What people were overheard saying on the London Underground … Thanks Ann for the link. hehe.
Beginning of Eclipse
I was going to take a photo of the eclipse on Saturday night.. Really I was! Unfortunately, it started raining, and I was in the pub. oops!
Anyway, here’s a much better photo than I could ever take with my current equipment!
Thank you SpamAssassin, again!
Every Monday morning it’s the same. There’s a pile of spam and it numbers in the hundreds of emails. Thankfully almost all of it was caught by SpamAssassin.
So, for those of you interested:
- Regular email: 1.3MB
- Spam email: 4.2MB
- Total spam: 507 emails.
- Spam that auto-trained: 400.
- Spam to my inbox: 3
Gives one a good feeling when you’re winning the battle on a daily basis. The war is another matter unfortunately.
Matrix? Revolutionary Film?
Well, despite my expectations, or maybe because of them, I really enjoyed Matrix Revolutions this afternoon! Further proof that others in the theatre enjoyed it was the lack of cat calls, hissing and general hubub from the assorted kids seated around us.
It’s an action movie, through and through. The story gets in the way occasionally, but not for long (unlike Morpheus’ long speech in the second movie, most of the dialog scenes were thankfully short.)
Keanu still can’t act, and he’s comical in his “portrayal” of grave emotions. He did kick ass “doing his Superman thing” this time, which I found annoying and pointless in the previous movie.
I don’t need to tell you to go see it, you know you will anyway, but expect more of the same of movie 2 and you’ll be pleasantly surprised!
(Thank you Lou for correcting my spelling of Mr. Reeves’ first name!)
WP and Smarty
As I mentioned before I’m working on integrating b2++ and WordPress. To that end I’ve started on Smarty Template support and just this evening I checked in a few changes to WordPress CVS.
From my limited experience of sf.net CVS, it could be a few days before anon CVS will get those changes but watch out for them if you’re interested in that sort of thing!