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Truemors, Tumors, Dribble

I was sent this email. _ http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/06/by_the_numbers_.html By the Numbers: How I built a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen – Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site for $12,107.09 I have had my flatmate talk about it a lot in the past day.

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Want to hatch a great idea?

I attended The Hatchery tonight. A rather brilliant opportunity for you to pitch your present idea “The Gauntlet”, and get “The Panel” to provide expert advice your friends are not going to tell you.

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Amp’d Mobile no more

Announced at the 2007 Conference as MySQL Applications of the Year – #1 in 3G Mobile Entertainment, Amp’d Mobile is no longer the poster boy within the US telecommunications. [Amp’d Mobile Implodes: Burns $360 million, Declares Bankruptcy][1].

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Things that irk me!

As part of my job, I spend a lot of time assisting people when they are driving. But sometimes is can be trying. People that type commands, make a mistake, then backspace over typed text (like 10-20 characters), only to have to retype the text again.

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Google Street View Camera

There has been plenty of news about [Google Maps Street View][1] that I blogged about recently. I wanted to know how they do it, well here is how they do it.

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Web Site – Stumble Upon

This week eBay bought Stumble Upon . Popular names that are also eBay companies include PayPal and Skype for example. It’s rather cool, it lists hot sites that people discover. As if I didn’t have enough to look at.

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Innodb Monitoring I didn’t know

Ok, so I knew about innodb_table_monitor and innodb_tablespace_monitor. I’ve tried them before, looked at the output and given up, partly because it didn’t serve the purpose I wanted it to at the time, and also because it’s format was a little cryptic.

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Log Buffer #47: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Log Buffer #47: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs June 1st, 2007 – by Ronald Bradford Welcome to the 47th edition of Log Buffer , the weekly review of database blogs.

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Google Maps adds real-time images

Yesterday I was amazed to see yet another new feature in Google Maps . A new button [Street View], gives you are real view of the street in question, you can rotate the image around 360 degrees, and move up and down the street.

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My ‘hourly’ MySQL monitor script Version 0.03

I realized when I released my very crappy version of My ‘hourly’ MySQL monitor script I really should have included my standard logging. So I did that the night I wrote my original blog, but never published it.

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My ‘hourly’ MySQL monitor script

Following my article Everything fails, Monitor Everything , and some inquiries, I’ve made some small modifications to my initially hourly script. This script is still a quick and dirty trial of what I’m wanting to develop, but in true Guy Kawasaki terms “5.

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Got the next great web thing!

I joined a new meetup group New York Dot Com Hatchery on advice from my friend Marc. Now only if my schedule keeps in NY for the event I’ll be very much looking forward to going.

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Cool Photo Printing Site

I just came across Moo as a link from Fotolog . This site gives you the option to get a photo like card on the front, and text on the back.

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Using Perl with MySQL

NOTE: Problems presently exist, I’m seeking the expert help of the community and Perl Gurus I have the need to do some quick benchmarking, I use MyBench as it’s effective in being able to plug in a query, some randomness and 2 minutes later (with a correctly configured Perl/MySQL environment) you have multi-threaded load testing.

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