Monthly Archives: July 2008

Does Breaking News Excite You?

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Rob

If breaking news excites you, you may not be alone. It apparently brings an indescribable emotion to this woman: There’s not many things that would bring this expression to my face. Most of them won’t involve breaking news though, I … Continue reading →

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MySQL Is Easier to Administer than PostgreSQL

Posted on July 29, 2008 by Rob

I wanted to title this article PostgreSQL sucks, but that wouldn't have been fair to PostgreSQL has it really doesn't suck, exactly. It is a very well featured database, and was the first open source database to have many advanced … Continue reading →

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Amazon S3 Outage

Posted on July 20, 2008 by Rob

Starting at roughly 11 AM Central Daylight Time, Amazon's S3 service went down and has been down ever since, even at the time of this writing. This 6+ hour outage is the latest in a string of outages that have … Continue reading →

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An Uplifting Video

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Rob

I don't usually post “uplifting” things, as they generally are a bit too cheesy for me (read into that statement what you wish). That said, I think this is a genuinely positive video that really could make someone's day better. … Continue reading →

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