Archive for January, 2006

Plugin Posted

My music engine plugin was just posted on yahoo. I talked about how easy it was to build this plugin in a previous post. As you can see I’m not much of a visual designer Music Engine is turning into a great product. They have been very busy adding new music. When I first got [...]

January 30, 2006 • Posted in: Geek • 2 Comments

Heavy Mouse

Sometimes when I select a large block of text I feel like my mouse is loaded. It seems a little harder to move it over to where ever that text is supposed to go. I can’t be the only one this crazy. Try it and see.

January 26, 2006 • Posted in: Geek • No Comments

I/O Scheduling

An elevator picks people up and moves them to different floors based on where they have requested. If an elevator picked up exactly one person on the ground floor of a building, dropped them off, and went down to get another person it wouldn’t be very efficient. Modern elevators pick up people and move them [...]

January 26, 2006 • Posted in: Geek, MySQL • No Comments

MySQL Online Manual Search

Previously I wrote about the manual search and how it had been fixed. Now I think it’s time for polish. Most of the basic keyword searches work but not all of them. The syntax keyword searches should always be spot on. mysql.com/select syntax Works great but the less common syntax searches fail mysql.com/grant syntax There [...]

January 23, 2006 • Posted in: Geek, MySQL • No Comments

$2.98 Beer

Photo_060305_001 Originally uploaded by Eric Bergen. The Tied House in Mountain View has a very strange price structure. Apparently they want their bar tenders to get a lot of two cent tips because he charged me $2.98 for this beer. Very strange but still good beer.

January 16, 2006 • Posted in: General • No Comments

Moving Rock

Being new to california I still don’t know about all of the local natural wonders that this area has to offer (except the wonder of high real estate ) Jeremy is planning a camping trip to death valley. He assures me that the tempuratures will be mild enough so we won’t die. One of the [...]

January 16, 2006 • Posted in: General • No Comments