Archive for May, 2006

Bait and switch

This post should be a (hopefully good) review of the chili served today. It’s not because there was no chili. Instead of $25,000 chili I was offered seafood chowder. My review of the chowder?
The quality was good but it just didn’t appeal to me.

May 30, 2006 • Posted in: General • No Comments

$25,000 Beef Chili

Yahoo lunch subsities are getting better every day. Today we have the option of “$25,000 Beef Chili” for a mere $1.75 for a small $2.25 for a large. I hope it is as good as the name suggests. I will post a review after lunch.

May 30, 2006 • Posted in: Culinary • One Comment

The wrong way to upgrade MySQL

Expect a longer post in the near future on upgrade procedures. For now enjoy this quote from a gentoo user illustrating the worst way to upgrade.
linolium: is there a way to wipe every single table and start over from scratch?
linolium: ( the upgrade from mysql 4 to 5 didn’t go as smoothly as planned
me: did [...]

May 19, 2006 • Posted in: Geek, General, MySQL • 4 Comments

MySQL User Conference 2006

Every year the user conference gets better and better. I’m not sure if it’s the actual conference or just that I know so many more people than I did the year before so I’m that much more excited to see them all again. I was a speaker this year which is something like being a [...]

May 1, 2006 • Posted in: Geek, MySQL • One Comment