Clerical Rigor

Category: C.J. Insider

  • RIP, lilo

    I just discovered that my friend and mentor, lilo passed away on Saturday, the 16th of September. He was struck by a car while riding his bike. I haven’t quite come to terms with the loss. He meant a lot to many people. I wouldn’t be where I am if it were not for him.…

  • The Stranger

    Dan refuses to acknowledge my request to have some of my work syndicated in his paper. Did I piss in his wheaties and not notice? Maybe it was that time that I submited tens to hundreds of thousands of votes for the tighty-whities competitor that he didn’t want to win?

  • spamassassin tls plugin

    Anybody got a tls plugin for spamassassin? Something that will check to see whether incoming mail is signed by a certificate known to and trusted by spamd?

  • GNOME Foundation broken?

    I heard a rumor today that the GNOME foundation is fundamentally broken. Thoughts? Why would someone say this? Minutes of the Board meeting, 2006/Aug/02 Minutes of the Board meeting, 2006/Jul/19 Minutes of the Board meeting, 2006/Jun/25 Minutes of the Board meeting, 2006/Jun/07 Minutes of the Board meeting, 2006/Mar/22 Minutes of the Board meeting, 2006/Mar/15 Minutes…

  • Network Neutrality in a nutshell

    Network Neutrality is a term used to encompas the need for a balanced playing field on the Internet. Proponents for neutrality claim that having a tiered infrastructure will create a hierarchy of “haves” and “have nots.” The perceived problems would be similar to U.S. politics’ main problem: everyone has an equal vote; but those with…

  • Shaking things up

    It’s been a hectic week, and it’s only Tuesday. My wife and I recently made a decision to move on from MySQL. My passion is software development, and my experience doesn’t lend itself well to database development. Therefore, I’m returning to Amazon on Monday, if my intel is correct. Through a strange series of coincidences,…

  • Contributed to PeterZ’s talk at MySQL UC 2006

    Hey, look! Peter mentioned me in his presentation at the UC this year. UC2006-MySQL-Performance-Landscape.pdf I let him use the Sunfire T2000 I borrowed from Sun (which I should return today) to generate some statistics for the talk.