Tag Archives: Holy Shmoly

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..

100 albums you should remove from your collection immediately – I have a few of the U2 ones. I’m glad no Queen album was mentioned or I would have gone off in a huff and not linked to the list. *grin*

CNEWS Law & Order – Hijacker to be sentenced – He was caught by using Google to track him down! That’s actually a bit scary really.

Google Weblog – Lots of news about everyones favourite search engine! Although I didn’t know Google wanted AmazonLite down..

plasticbag.org | weblog – I think I might enjoy visiting this site.

Net Users Try to Elude the Google Grasp – A search for my name results in a fairly conclusive overview of my Internet activities over the past few years.