Picking a NetBook
03/01/2009
For a while I wanted to get a sub-notebook or NetBook as they call them sometimes.  Something easy to...
On Memory
02/24/2009
I always thought I had a decent memory, well, besides names –  I have very hard time remembering names...
Open Source ? I do not like this term any more.
02/17/2009
I’ve run into this post recently and it  really well resonates with what I was thinking a lot recently. The Open...
On a free public education
02/16/2009
Because of Budget crisis here in California we’re getting scary letters from the School District about nasty things to...
Valentines Day Cards
02/16/2009
Shopping for Valentines Day Cards the hardest thing is to find a card which you can actually write on. Most...
How Support is different from the Car Insurance
02/14/2009
When I was working for MySQL some people liked to compare MySQL Support to insurance, say car insurance to...
Wikipedia for daddies
02/10/2009
Wikipedia is a great resourse for dads of curious kids. My kid asks a lot of questions and he...
Competition and Open Source
02/05/2009
I’m hearing some people think we at Percona are in unfair competition with Sun/MySQL.   Indeed  Sun and MySQL invest millions in...