Archive for February, 2011



MySQL isn’t YourSQL

February 28th, 2011 | Published in Database, Tech Talk | No Comments


Ok, so I’ve already corrected gaudy and horrible behavior [intlink id="postgresql-for-newbs"]part and parcel[/intlink] with default PostgreSQL installs, but what about that… other open-source SQL database? Is it wrong too? Sure is!


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Review: Freedom (TM)

February 23rd, 2011 | Published in Book, Review | No Comments


I just finished reading Daniel Suarez‘s Freedom (TM) in about three days. This is much more a statement of the novel’s quality than my own somewhat glacial reading pace.


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Forgotten

February 21st, 2011 | Published in News, Poetry, Writing | No Comments


In the world that we despise,
are there times of loss or wonder?
Toiling ever, full of lies,
sick of writhing, going under.


PostgreSQL for Newbs

February 13th, 2011 | Published in Database, Tech Talk | 2 Comments


So you’ve decided to use PostgreSQL as the database for your sparkly new website running some variant of a LAMP stack. Or maybe you just got a new job and must now administer a PostgreSQL install so you excitedly did your research. You’ve read the install docs, tinkered on a VM, and you think you’ve got everything ready.


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