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It’s makes me cry

I got home today and sat down to read my home email list. Nothing new. But on a MySQL mailing list, there was an enquiry why performance was slowing in a given application.

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Your Ideal Job Requirements?

I came across in my papers while searching for some taxation information, a list that I made to use as an evaluation in an “ideal job”. This goes with a general comment I made only a few weeks ago to a number of colleagues.

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SHOW STATUS Gotcha

Well, it’s Sunday night so I will put this down to being the weekend. The background to being caught out is a request I made to my local Users Group mailing list for some information on people’s environments because I wanted to some empirical data analysis without having any more knowledge of the systems.

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Microfox ?

I’ve added Digg to my general lunch time reading web sites. I came across this yesterday. Microsoft invites Firefox development team to Redmond . Well, isn’t that nice, the big boy opening his pond (including all the sharks) to the little fish.

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The fast pace of technology in a Web 2.0 world

I had need to goto the Wikipedia this morning to review the terminology of something, and on the front page in Today’s featured article is Mercury. Being a tad curious given I’d heard only on the radio a few hours ago that Pluto was no longer a planet in our Solar System, I drilled down to the bottom to check references to other planets (quicker then searching).

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No Spam Today

Huh, tricked you. As if! However I was looking at my Akismet Spam section in WordPress , the open source software that runs my blog, and it gave me this message.

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The RAT and the CAT

No, it’s not a bedtime story, is a serious system’s design concept and I’m amazing that people don’t know about this. As I mentioned in If you don’t know your data, you don’t know your application I was doing a Java Code Review, and I found a clear case of a much simplier solution.

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If you don’t know your data, you don’t know your application.

The art of data modelling is definitely lost on some [most] people, or they never found it, even though they think they did. Over dinner with good friend Morgan last night we were swapping present stories on the topic.

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Become named in Firefox 2

So, FireFox have come up with a novel idea to promote it’s product. Check out Firefox Day. The official blurb: Share Firefox with a friend. If your friend downloads Firefox before September 15, you’ll both be immortalized in Firefox 2.

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New Toy

Got my new toy today, having only ordered it Thursday night, it arrived Monday. Normally Dell stuff comes from Asia, maybe they had some of these on hand locally. A Dell 2407WFP 24″ LCD monitor with a 1920×1200 resolution.

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Peace Man

No, it’s not a slogan from the 1960’s and 1970’s, however if I could draw a picture in a wordpress textarea I’d draw a hand Victory signal with two fingers.

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Websites – Meebo

WebSite: www.meebo.com If you use Instant Message (IM), but can’t use within an environment, do it via the web. Way Cool

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Pride

I’ve recently completed a contract and I’ve been in discussions with agents and other employers for further work. Having had one of the worse experiences in my previous work, I’ve been extra careful to ensure what I’m told at the interview/meeting stage is indeed true and accurate (in my last case it was not).

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Troubleshooting Wireless Connections (under Windoze)

Router Configuration In order to enable wireless you will most probably have a Wireless Router that is managing your Internet Connection (via cable or DSL), Each router is different, however they generally all have a web interface to access them, the Netgear and DLink routers seems to have generally moved to http://192.

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