June, 20, 2004 archives

paul ford’s thoughts on geekery, originally presented on npr’s all things considered, is quite genius. (via oblomovka.)

sometimes i wish i had a gmail account just so i could do giveaways of free gmail accounts. all the cool kids are doing it. somewhere, the google marketing and pr folks who might otherwise feel constrained by the pre-ipo quiet period are laughing themselves silly.

mysql> alter table blogs type=innodb;
Query OK, 2027382 rows affected (1 hour 32 min 41.49 sec)
Records: 2027382  Duplicates: 0  Warnings: 0

i did catch an out-of-control blog notification bot that may have been chewing up memory and otherwise getting in the way for most of that period.