Wednesday night, I came down with strep throat. Thursday, after a nurse at the clinic confirmed it – I started taking penicillin. Almost immediately, my throat was better. Also almost immediately, my hand started swelling up. Back to the clinic, where the doctor suspects cellulitis from a minor burn I received a week ago (so …
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“These are all fundamental aspects of Twitter, and they have been mangled. And these items do not even get into the more technical issues with Twitter’s API implementation, which I could write another blog post about. Or about how Twitter took a vibrant ecosystem full of capable developers excited about their platform that other companies …
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Cruddy Saturday
Note: this post (like many of my others) is a record for me to track re-occurances or anomalies. I woke up Saturday not feeling well – and it went downhill from there. Aching joints, extraordinarily tired, mild nausea, waves of chills, a strange metallic taste in my mouth, and a sharp pain in my left …
You know, writing!
“All of our stories that do well on Hacker News share one thing: they are written. By written, I mean that someone took the time and effort to examine individual sentences, to think about word choices, to create transitions between grafs, to describe things precisely. You know, writing! But a lot of what gets posted …
Ultron Sonic Confusion
I was browsing Amazon this afternoon looking for some speakers for my office. Obviously – these Ultron Sonic‘s stood out. They even look like they’d be great for when I’m on the go. While I jest – I think this page is an excellent example of how integral getting both the product info & images …
Why I’m Not Pre-Ordering the iPad2
“I’d also argue that Apple is breaking an implicit promise it made with buyers of the first 150 million plus number of iPhones, iPod Touchs and iPads. We wanted the next great personal computing platform, not Disney World in our pocket.” Plus, just thinking about iOS’s hub-and-spoke-UI makes me tired.
How to Reclaim Disk Space After Deleting Lots of MySQL Records
Turns out MySQL’s InnoDB engine isn’t (by default) very enthusiastic to give back disk space if after mass deletions (say, a DELETE * or a TRUNCATE TABLE). The fix is a little unsettling, but it’s also simple (and with a modestly size db – fast). Back up the db (you should doing this anyway, but …
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