Apparently much of my email from the weekend has gone into the ether…I’ll try to reconstruct later. Also, for those trying to contact by phone, it pains me to relate the untimely demise of my cell phone, which was the victim of a Sunday afternoon trip through the rinse cycle of the Maytag. If you need me by phone, try using 4092 instead of the standard 4091 for the last 4 digits. Of course, I’m in a building which is…
An interesting move – and for most of you thinking “this doesn’t affect me” I can tell you you’re dead wrong. You see over the past couple years, MySQL has become the back end database for a good deal of the web. If you’re CEO doesn’t have his own Gulfstream, chances are that some of your mission critical applications and quite probably your own website is using MySQL for something, if not everything. I’ll withhold judgment on the whole thing…
They’ve changed the way we look at our world – literally. Google Earth, with it’s high resolution satellite images has become so many things we never considered. First, when billionaire Steve Fossett disappearred, teams poured over the latest images, looking for wreckage, and even though they found none, it was a watershed moment (personally, I think he just headed off to his secret Isle of Doom). Now we’ve got word that police are looking at Google Earth images to help…