Random Stuff
It’s cute, it has to be posted:
Month: September 2009
Random Stuff
Google has a great feature called Google Suggest, if you didn’t know, it’s where as you enter a search term, it provides a dropdown of things you may be searching for – kind of like auto-complete. It is a really useful feature as often people do search for almost exactly the same string. Sometimes however, … Read More “Google loves to help, just not always how you expect” »
Holidays, Random Stuff
Next year me, Jared, my mother and my sister are supposed to be going to see Jared’s mother for a week (in the states) then driving down to Florida and staying there for a week. That way the parents get to meet and then we get some sun and fun in Florida… …I say supposed … Read More “Oasis of the Seas – Next Holiday Planned!” »
Random Stuff
We have Eurotrash, the Japanese have a whole collection of random TV shows, most recently is Ancient Dogoo Girl who’s magical breasts are the source of her power (and yet somehow this promo is still SFW, barely.)
Films, Gym, Programming
InnoISAM is what I need, a happy medium between InnoDB and MyISAM. I need the speed of inserts of InnoDB with the speed of selects of MyISAM – no HEAP will not work because the JOIN that I do results in the HEAP table being converted into MyISAM. You get two tables that deal with … Read More “InnoISAM / District 9” »
Random Stuff
I don’t know what to say other than, it has to be read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Balls My Balls (オレたま, Ore Tama?) is a Japanese manga written by Shigemitsu Harada The fate of the world rests in one man’s testicles. In a freak sealing accident, the Queen of Terror is sealed into Satou Kohta’s testicles…
Programming, Random Stuff
Ah Friday’s, it’s always a good day in the office, everyone (at least in the dev team) know it’s Friday, and most weeks, Dan’s behaviour is a tell tale sign. Friday also means pub lunch day, something to look forward to…usually – however today was a sad day, our usual pub, the Wellington, let us … Read More “Hidden things, lack of fries and pointless data” »
Ego-centric, Programming
Today’s work was a standard day, well except for the morning, actually no, that was a standard morning too, things didn’t work too well, they needed fixing, during which there were random jokes at Ben’s expense due to his pure love of graphs. With some help from Remo (my team manager) though, we did manage … Read More “Today’s musings” »
Ego-centric, Random Stuff
…but never go to the gym without some kind of energy source. A piece of advice I keep meaning to pay attention to but it’s a case of “do as I say, not as I do.” I got home from work, had a drink of juice, quickly ate a Snickers then straight off to the … Read More “It goes without saying…” »
Programming, Random Stuff
PHP and Serializing…don’t try and store the result in a plain text file, there’s just a chance you may end up storing NUL so when you go to read a line, you’ll end up only reading part of it (the serialized object had a stack trace in it from an exception.) Incidentally, don’t try and … Read More “Another day, another group of PHP “funness”” »