December, 1, 2005 archives

if you read any los angeles blogs, expect to see a lot of mentions of this los angeles times article about los angeles blogs. no, i’m not mentioned.

researchers in germany have figured out why you wake up before your alarm clock goes off. no insight on why i can’t sleep past 6am.

last month, enrique iglesias, boyfriend of tony pierce’s anna kournikova, allegedly said he will be lending his name to a line of extra-small condoms. he now says his remarks were misunderstood, calling the rumors of his diminutive manhood “hurtful.”

hot on the heels of the mysql 5.0 production release, the first mysql 5.1 alpha release is out. the major new features in the alpha are partitioning and the beginnings of the new plugin api (allowing for some cool full-text possibilities now, and even more to come in 5.1 and later versions). here’s the full announcement.

childrens hospital los angeles was the charity i made reference to back in october. they were supposed to send me some information about their donor programs, but never did, and yet i’m giving them money anyway. i’m so easy.

this is the fourth year in a row that i’ve been able to give money to the childrens hospital.

they also handle platelet donations, which you may have heard some people go on about.