Today I upgraded our internet account to take advantage of mySQL databases.
It obviously coincided with the fact of my introduction to the wonderful world of mySQL. So I’ll be in charge of mySQL and it seems pretty easy up to now. We’ll need to use mySQL for a new client we’re trying to “catch”.
Oh, my Amazon.co.uk order arrived today… you gotta love ordering stuff from the UK. Now I’m the proud owner of “Programming Perl” by Larry Wall et al, the reference book for any aspiring Perl programmer such as myself. The order also contained “The Art of Stretchig and Kicking” by James Lew. It’s a kung fu book, divided in two parts: stretching and kicking (obvious isn’t it?). I’m especially interested in the stretching part as I’ve been noticing a severe loss in mobility lately. I cannot reach my toes with my fingers while keeping my legs stretched anymore… not by a long shot since I can barely bend at the waist.
I decided to start a daily practice of stretching exercises to help me overcome this problem and this book is exactly what I expected it to be, with the added bonus that, if I can master the stretching exercises I can then proceed to learn how to basically kick ass in any given way… with extreme prejudice :)
Late last night I joined the Seti@home project. It’s really rather cool, although most of it was totally incomprehensible for me at the beginning.
I’ve read some FAQs since then and now I vaguely understand what’s going on when I download a chunk of radiotelescope data for my CPU to analyze. Anyone can participate, actually, there already 500.000 participants in over 200 countries who’ve already contributed over 1600 years of processing. You can joun in on the program wether you have a Windows based PC, a Mac, a UNIX, Solaris or Linux machine, you name it check it out here: Seti@home.
Tomorrow there’ll be a European boycott to fixed telecommunications. Especially, we should refrain from connecting to the internet and using our phone lines for any other reason. The idea is that the telecom companies are overcharging to take advantage of the ever growing number of internet users. Also we want flat rates like the ones in the USA, meaning we shouldn’t be charged by the minute for phone calls, we should just be charged a fee for every call and that’s it.
Learn more about the strugle of European telecom users for better services and lower rates here: Telecom Strikes.
Today I went to meet with my attorney and friend and incredible mexican gunman for lunch. We had some gigantic veal steaks and talked about business… yes… business, because we’re very successful young business men.
Oh well… we finally talked about turning our company name into a registered brand and also registering our comics and characters, which is way past due and is going to be done now, before someone starts to use our stuff abusevely.
We also talked about building a lawyer site for him with some interesting challenges for us, especially in what comes to Perl programming.
By the way I recently ordered “Programming Perl” from Amazon, it should be here any day now.
Today I upgraded our internet account to take advantage of mySQL databases. It obviously coincided with the fact of my introduction to the wonderful world of mySQL. So I’ll be in charge of mySQL and it seems pretty easy up to now. We’ll need to use mySQL for a new client we’re trying to “catch”. […]
Late last night I joined the Seti@home project. It’s really rather cool, although most of it was totally incomprehensible for me at the beginning. I’ve read some FAQs since then and now I vaguely understand what’s going on when I download a chunk of radiotelescope data for my CPU to analyze. Anyone can participate, actually, […]
wednesday, june 2nd, 1999 Today I went to meet with my attorney and friend and incredible mexican gunman for lunch. We had some gigantic veal steaks and talked about business… yes… business, because we’re very successful young business men. Oh well… we finally talked about turning our company name into a registered brand and also […]
