Wow, the narrator makes all the difference. We picked up a different book for the drive home from Thanksgiving, “Basic Black” by Cathie Black on business. The 6 hour trip was over before we knew it. We’ve still got 3 hours left in the book, but a good audiobook makes the drive go by so [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Malibu Fires
We spent the weekend in SoCal with family for Thanksgiving and got to see what a California Forest Fire looks like close up. The Malibu fire was about 15 miles from where we were staying, but it looked like it was right over the next ridge. Took a couple pics with the cell phone, I’ll [...]
To Partition or Archive?
I’m getting close to having to make a decision with Cloudgrove on what to do about the main content table. Cloudgrove already has 5M posts and is growing rather quickly. Currently the table indices still fit within memory on the DB server, but at some point in the near future that will no longer be [...]
My intro to audiobooks
For Thanksgiving this year we drove down to the LA area to visit family. It’s about a 6 hour drive for us which isn’t too bad. To make it go a bit quicker though we picked up a couple audiobooks from Audible. The first one that we listened to was Stephen Colbert’s “I am America [...]
PG&E is not my friend
I recieved a nice little notice from PG&E a couple of weeks ago that they would be doing some routine maintenance in my neighborhood and that they would need to shut the power off for several hours to complete it. The letter was a nice heads up that the power would probably be shut off [...]
Webshots is sold again
Well, this makes it twice now, that Webshots has been sold while I was working there. This looks like it will be the last time that I will get to go through a sale of this property since I won’t be making the move out to Cleveland to join the American Greetings Team. I want [...]
Syriana
I watched “Syriana (Widescreen Edition)” on one of the movie channels a few nights ago and it brought up an idea for me that I might have understood at a base level, but hadn’t given too much thought. The idea is that while the world is full of possibilities and a lot of times all [...]