April 2004 Thirteen posts

27-Apr-2004

Whoooooooooooooooooosh …is the sound of events and projects whooshing by my head. Some things are getting done, mostly school things as it turns out. But lots of other things are getting dropped right now. I hope to pick up more as the week goes on. I’m sitting between classes here at City as I listen to...

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26-Apr-2004

SQL Comment from rudy.ca rudy sent me a comment about my MySQL post saying: VARCHAR(200) is **not** very silly TEXT has performance issues of course, if you were planning on regularly inserting comments that exceed 200, then yeah, some kind of larger datatype would be required so in that light, VARCHAR(200) is a wee bit sillier than VARCHAR(255) ;o)...

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22-Apr-2004

MySQL Archaeology When I was first playing with databases I was putting lots of stray stuff into mine. It was pretty fun, actually. mysql> select want_id, artist, title from music_wanted; +---------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+ | want_id | artist | title | +---------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+ | 0001 | Anderson, Laurie | Mr. Heartbreak | | 0002 | Cocker, Joe | Greatest Hits |...

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19-Apr-2004

Airport Adventures So today I picked up a friend from the airport. I got there a decent 20 minutes early. So I’m hanging out at San Diego International Airport (san.org is not a bad domain, by the way, “san” is the airport code for San Diego). I’m standing in front of the arrival and departure screens, minding...

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19-Apr-2004

Weekend Wrapup Went to the South Bay Drive In with Leah to see Kill Bill Volume 2, which was violent but entertaining. I have not been to a drive-in movie in a decade. Racquetball Saturday was good. Got back Leah’s computer from my uncle, who got a new case, installed a new fan, and did some other...

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14-Apr-2004

Snippets from the last two weeks Helping make Easter baskets which included saltwater taffy and Botan rice candy. Bodysurfing the day before Easter in the cold waters of the Coronado strand. Drinking Chai and checking RSS feeds at Influx. Getting an 80 on my most recent Statistics test. Disappointment ensues, but I think my A is still secure. Doing a presentation...

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14-Apr-2004

Sparky’s Hook Some friends of ours have a dog named Sparky. A wonderful mutt who is always getting into trouble. The following is what happens when a dog swallows a fishhook: Sparky is fine. But there was a >$1000 vet bill to endoscope that hook out. Wow.

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12-Apr-2004

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12-Apr-2004

Law & Order Blog The Ledger: A Law & Order Blog… this post is more or less for Sassy, who had a birthday last Friday.

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07-Apr-2004

Launching Today Today I launch ArtLung Semidaily Links – which you can also see in the right hand side of this blog. It’s a place for me to put miscellaneous stuff. I hope you find it useful and fun!

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