Something Odd!

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.

System Administrator Appreciation Day – I couldn’t let this go by without mentioning it! A big thank you to all the sys admins out there!

afraidofthe.net: insanity at its finest. Has a great ASCII pic of an alien!

glterm – a terminal emulator using openGL and GLUT. From the screenshots it looks like a C64 demo with cycling colours behind the characters..