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Google Earth

Google Earth and Google Maps can give you some great views of our planet. Here is a full-time blog just for Google Earth. There’s plenty of amazing things to see, check out Top Ten Coolest Things seen with Google Earth.

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Plane Spotting without leaving your desk

I’ve heard of people that go plane spotting. Watching different planes that come into airports. I’m lazy, while checking out my home with Wikimapia look what I spotted Here. (Offline image: View)

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The price for digg success

I guess much like the Slashdot effect, the Digg effect is both a good thing for your exposure and traffic hits, and a bad thing for those ISP’s watching the traffic.

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Planet kicked out of solar system after failing test

PLUTO supporters from all over the world are burning things after the tiny cold planet was booted out of the solar system. The decision caused uproar in the text book and hanging mobile industries, which will have to recall all their products and re-do them,

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Logical Data Modelling (LDM)

Following my User Group Presentation I was asked by fellow MySQLer Kim about Logical Data Modelling (LDM), in relation to Physical Data Modelling. Well, first the brain had to work overtime to remember when was the last time I worked on a Logical Data Model.

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The Hobbyist and the Professional

I first coined this term in February 2006 in a paper titled “Overcoming the Challenges of Establishing Service and Support Channels” for the conference “Implementing Open Source for Optimal Business Performance” View Paper.

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Slow Queries aren’t always that bad!

Well, now I have your attention, Slow Queries are bad (unless it’s a single user system and you don’t care). However there are worse things then slow queries in a large enterprise system.

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Web Site – Speed Test

Want to know your Internet Connection speed in a real world test? Want a fancy graphical presentation of your internet Speed? SpeedTest.Net has you covered. As you can see that even provide graphics results to can use on your own site.

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Google Doodles

Sometimes using that Firefox Google Quick Search causes you to miss out on the best part of the Google Search experience, and that is the Google Doodle . Now while I’m tempted to include one here, I’m respecting the wishes of Google which request you use an official logo and “don’t feed the kangaroo“.

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Stories that impress and motivate you

I’ve worked for two Internet startup companies, both around 2 years each, both now long dead. The first was due to eventual lack of new VC funds, the second gross financial managment in the second year (apparently, when we were told there was no money December one year to pay us, the company that made large profits every month for over the first year, then had made losses every month for the past 12 months, but nobody knew about it.

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MySQL Trigger Features

Sheeri talked a little about MySQL Triggers in One TRIGGER Fact, Optimizer Rewriting Stuff . While it’s great that MySQL 5.0 has Triggers, there are some things that I feel could become features in future releases.

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Handling Error Levels in Logging

In reviewing some provided code to a client, I observed a number of actions contray to generally accepted practices regarding logging. This is what I provided as the general programming conventions with regardings to logging.

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The Windoze CLI, or lack there of.

There are many reasons why I hate Windoze, here is just another example. I need via the command line, change to a given directory, so I can manually run a command.

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Brisbane Users Group – MySQL Hackfest

Last night we had a number of keen souls at the Brisbane MySQL User Group . I was very impressed to see the majority of people with laptops at hand.

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