Archive for April, 2008

MySQL vs. Burt’s Bees

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Interesting factoid: MySQL was bought by Sun for $1 billion Burt's Bees was bought by Clorox for $913 million In other words, the two companies were purchased for more or less the same amounts. I'm not sure yet what that really means, if anything, other than that ...

April 7

Friday, April 18th, 2008

I missed April 7 this year - too crazy trying to set the foundation for a business startup to change the world or something lame like that. I'm disappointed in myself for this. April 7 is the anniversary of the start of the genocide in Rwanda. It's been fourteen years now, ...

Flickr and Dopplr

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Holy cannoli, just noticed that my Dopplr thing somehow spiders my Flickr spot and pulls the photos relevant to a specific trip. That's cool, and yet it creeped me out. Had a long conversation with Elaine (who is, I feel, on the verge of a major life upheaval that will somehow ...

Boracay

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

It's 11:18 PM in Boracay, Philippines, which means that it's 8:18 AM Seattle time... which means that I am wide bright-eyed awake. I should really be writing my performance review, or sleeping, but neither is particularly likely at the moment. I've taken my Ambien (almost took a Levaquin in its ...

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