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C-130 Taking a run at the Rim Fire 23 Aug 2013 | 09:38 am
Shot from the Pine Mountain Lake Marina earlier today (August 22nd). The next photo is a picture of a plume that blew up east of Pine Mountain Lake Airport.
Aircraft Fighting the Rim Fire, seen from Pine Mountain Lake 22 Aug 2013 | 10:23 am
Long time no blog. With the Rim Fire raging up here, I’ve been active on Facebook and Twitter, though. We shot some pictures of the fire fighting aircraft this evening from the Pine Mountain Lake Ma...
Seeking Sucks: Spoiled by SSDs 5 Apr 2013 | 08:48 am
I’m in the process of rebuilding full-text indexes for a good sized document collection that lives in a sharded MongoDB cluster. And the funny thing about this is that I don’t really use MongoDB that ...
When Google Voice Transcription Goes Wrong… 9 Oct 2012 | 11:02 pm
Hilarity ensues… Hey there, I decided to try to catch up with you and I just got back from him. So I got it yet. My My Sweet diarrhea certainly help. I can tell you a little more about it later … Cont...
Handling Database Failover at Craigslist 19 Sep 2012 | 05:19 am
There has been some interesting discussion on-line recently about how to handle database (meaning MySQL, but really it applies to other systems too) failover. The discussion that I’ve followed so far,...
Coursera on-line classes and the future of learning… 18 Sep 2012 | 12:33 am
Ten years from now a “college education” is going to look radically different from when I went to school. And I think that’s a good thing, especially when you consider the skyrocketing costs of “highe...
iPad Annoyance: File Uploads in Safari 23 May 2012 | 02:23 pm
A few weeks ago I got a new iPad and have generally been quite happy with it. When paired with a wireless keyboard, I can even do some basic (lightweight) “work” on it as a remote terminal. But there’...
iPad and Wireless Keyboard 12 May 2012 | 03:37 pm
In the last year or so, I’ve been working to reduce my computer inventory so that I spend less time administering things and more time actually using them. As part of that, Kathleen and I recently got...
Speaking at Percona MySQL Conference and Sphinx Search Day 26 Feb 2012 | 06:35 am
I’m happy to see that the vacuum created by O’Reilly Media dropping the annual MySQL Conference has been filled by the good people at Percona in the form of the Percona MySQL Conference, which is in S...
Money vs. Interesting Work 5 Feb 2012 | 06:06 am
From the comments of Never Make Counter Offers on Bram Cohen’s weblog, …Money is really like a chronic disease, my financial situation is something that intrudes on what I want to do, and prevents me...
