Friday November 29, 2002

Re: I'm home with Mono

I thought Andy had gotten sick again (did you read his ApacheCon adventures?), but it's worse than that, he's dancing with the devil! (Editor's note: the preceding was sarcasm). ( Nov 29 2002, 12:12:00 PM ) Technology Permalink
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Re: Extreme Persistance

Jon Tirsen and his "boss" have been trying out Prevayler. I've never tried it, so I cannot comment on the product. But from Jon's post it sounds an awful lot like (nee`) HypersonicSQL - which keeps everything in memory, writes out a "change script", and updates the disk copy periodically (much more frequently HSQL) Sounds like Pervayler is more stable though - I had to stop using HSQL for my Roller blog because it kept logging access errors (didn't dig further to find the real issue).

Jon, I'm still an O/R bigot I guess, as I haven't yet seen a better solution. Granted, I haven't seen many, so I admittedly come from a position of relative ignorance (ah, bliss). Finally, reading Marcus' (the bossman) comments - it appears he want a SQL-interface for applications "outside his realm" (such as CrystalReports) - and has concerns with "persistence versioning", both valid issues I'd say. ( Nov 29 2002, 09:01:20 AM ) Technology Permalink Comments [1]
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Tuesday November 26, 2002

Say it ain't so!

A spam bot, sending ICQ messages over the ethernet in hopes of finding poor lonely men who like bad grammar. And I'll bet her name isn't even Emma. [KCG]

What will the spammers come up with next? ( Nov 26 2002, 09:02:16 AM ) News Permalink
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Saturday November 23, 2002

Goin' on a space trip

Hopefully, someday soon. ( Nov 23 2002, 10:56:54 AM ) Technology Permalink
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Friday November 22, 2002

Either my referrer log is broken or I've sunk to a new low of unpopularity. My referrer count hasn't budged all day. bummer

Later: I figured out that my DNS got screwed up somehow, so that's how come nobody was reading me, they couldn't find me! ( Nov 22 2002, 07:40:15 PM ) Entertainment Permalink
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Actual pages are blank

The reams of paper your buy in your office supply store often have pictures on their wrappers illustrating Things You Can Put on Paper: color business charts, pictures of a buff guy water-skiing, newsletters, pictures of colorful hot air balloons, more business charts. This is in case you weren't quite sure what paper is used for. I'm just surprised that they don't say in small print: "Serving suggestion. Actual pages are blank."[JoHo the Blog]

( Nov 22 2002, 02:37:33 PM ) Entertainment Permalink
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Programming Note

On the off chance that you notice and care, I've rearranged my bookmarks a bit. I moved all the FreeRollers down into More Reading, and put a link to the "most recently updated" on FreeRoller. Since I've yet to find an aggregator I like (haven't tried Flock yet), so I'm still blogrolling by hand... ( Nov 22 2002, 10:27:07 AM ) News Permalink
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Tuesday November 19, 2002

So what is all the fuss about?

dIon wonders Is this just a way for the people with an opinion to get a public forum? Well, that is certainly part of it, but it is also yet another way to be a part of a community (okay, an overused word). Since I've started blogging and working on Roller, I've "met" many interesting people from all over the world - the western hemisphere mostly.

Somehow blogs hadn't held much interest for me before, I hardly ever read them. Having one of my own allowed me a place to respond, since I don't always like leaving comments or want to expound to a greater length. And, as evidenced by my blog name, vanity certainly does play a part.

Why do you blog? Leave a comment. ( Nov 19 2002, 08:09:19 PM ) Entertainment Permalink
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