colin charles collection: Archive

bytebot: mmrm, back home. it took a while from essendon to burwood. new battery in tow, all seems...

Sep 30th

bytebot: Yay. Sitting in burwood kmart, awaiting RACV. Looks like its new battery time. (via Twitter...

Sep 30th

bytebot: to add insult to injury, my car wont start. just called racv. it might take a good 90...

Sep 30th

bytebot: @skinnylatte: what are you registering for, that involves Malaysia (during ramadan...

Sep 30th

bytebot: lights in the room are rather romantic today. just woke up, thinks that maybe a kmart might...

Sep 30th

bytebot: @skinnylatte: all the best. give it some time if you can wait till after fasting ;) (via...

Sep 30th

How to Create and Seed a Torrent Download on...

Sep 30th

bytebot: @cait: good thinking. found chocolate from easter still here, and the ants were making...

Sep 30th

bytebot: grr. the light in my room is dead. (via Twitter / bytebot)

Sep 30th

bytebot: fscking ants. grr. i hate ants. (via Twitter / bytebot)

Sep 30th

bytebot: firefox just crashed at the wordpress admin page. too much spam? heh (via Twitter /...

Sep 30th

bytebot: home… is where the heart is. nice to be home :) (via Twitter / bytebot)

Sep 30th

bytebot: only put on 4.8kg in the last month. no exercise, heaps of eating. i expected it to be...

Sep 30th

bytebot: In robinsons in midvalley. Checkout counters filled with Malays. And they think...

Sep 26th

bytebot: Baggage scanner looks at my laptop and says ‘shueh’ (she said it means...

Sep 25th

bytebot: Walk into SFO, you see Oracle powered ads. Walk into Frankfurt, its SAP powered ads. Where...

Sep 25th

bytebot: Frankfurt is large. They have Haagen-Dazs Baileys ice cream. Unique. Goethe bar is so...

Sep 25th

bytebot: Don’t bet on leaving heidelberg easily. Train officials are idiots, and service is...

Sep 24th

bytebot: Full moon today… Nice german bloke helped by giving me info. To master the mannheim...

Sep 24th

bytebot: Made it on train with no time to spare. Ticket counters took some 35 minutes. Plus i have...

Sep 24th

bytebot: hmm, twitter went down, and the DB must’ve lost last updates? there must’ve...

Sep 24th

Leaving Heidelberg

As I sit in the lobby, taking a break, waiting to leave to the airport for my next destination, I...

Sep 24th

Heidelberg DevMeeting: MySQL’ers at the Heidelberg...

Sep 24th

Heidelberg DevMeeting: MySQL’ers at the Heidelberg...

Sep 24th

Heidelberg DevMeeting: MySQL’ers at the Heidelberg...

Sep 24th

Heidelberg DevMeeting: MySQL’ers at the Heidelberg...

Sep 24th

Heidelberg DevMeeting: MySQL’ers at the Heidelberg...

Sep 24th

Heidelberg DevMeeting: MySQL’ers at the Heidelberg...

Sep 24th

Heidelberg DevMeeting: MySQL’ers at the Heidelberg...

Sep 24th

Heidelberg DevMeeting: MySQL’ers at the Heidelberg...

Sep 24th

Heidelberg DevMeeting: MySQL’ers at the Heidelberg...

Sep 24th

Heidelberg DevMeeting: MySQL’ers at the Heidelberg...

Sep 24th

Heidelberg DevMeeting: MySQL’ers at the Heidelberg...

Sep 24th

bytebot: fsck. just found out my flight goes via bangkok, with a 2h transit. shit. 2nd time this...

Sep 24th

Tagging differentiation

Standardisation is important. Tagging in Uploadr involves writing tags in the format such that its:...

Sep 24th

Multiple pop-up dialogs

Surely there must be a better way of handling this: gnome-obex-server receiving lots of images...

Sep 24th

bytebot: @teki: ooer, it looks quite nice. i need to get something along those lines… (via...

Sep 24th

bytebot: who remembers hda1? its now sda1. on windows, is been like C:\ since dos days. consistency,...

Sep 24th

bytebot: last day in heidelberg. now i’ve got to find a post office and maybe attempt to do...

Sep 24th

bytebot: copying 3.5GB of data from the camera via usb, is really slow (think 0.5hr). and what a...

Sep 24th

bytebot: taken too many pictures. what do i do with them soon. bah (via Twitter / bytebot)

Sep 24th

Content Log: Scaling Out Like Technorati

Sep 23rd

Maximize your Mac OS X Java development...

Sep 23rd

bytebot: @doubleukay: of course. but i wanted to fave it, somehow… (via Twitter / bytebot)

Sep 23rd

bytebot: “There’s proof, I don’t need to volunteer” —on finding a...

Sep 23rd

bytebot: “PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES ARE LIKE GIRLFRIENDS: THE NEW ONE IS BETTER BECAUSE *YOU* ARE...

Sep 23rd

7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2...

Sep 23rd

Green Day – Whatsername

Sep 23rd

Green Day – Holiday

Sep 23rd

Green Day – Jesus Of Suburbia / City Of The...

Sep 23rd

bytebot: so 3 is pretty cool. they have online billing. i mean. how can you pass that up :P (via...

Sep 22nd

bytebot: fscking low/odd shaped european hotel. just bumped my head on the ceiling. grr. (via...

Sep 22nd

bytebot: @s2art: whatcha mean by that mate? (via Twitter / bytebot)

Sep 22nd

bytebot: i can has german underwear and socks! stores finally opened ~9.30am, so was a tad late to...

Sep 22nd

bytebot: gwen steffani is like my simple plan. now i dont even know why their music isnt on my...

Sep 22nd

My take on the Enterprise Monitor

MySQL has had this Enterprise Monitor around for a while, but I’ve not had the chance to try it....

Sep 21st

MySQL University at the DevMeeting

I don’t know about you, but the idea behind MySQL University is pretty amazing. It is truly a great...

Sep 21st

bytebot: Even the fruit stall owner drives a BMW and carries fruit in it! Finding a clothes store at...

Sep 21st

MySQL Musings: Musings on MySQL Proxy

Sep 21st

GotW.ca Home Page

Sep 21st

bytebot: @ziz: no idea. but the champagne here does taste different to the ones we get back at home...

Sep 21st

On voting…

Via Khairil: There is enough of us in the younger voting generation, that can say enough is enough,...

Sep 21st

bytebot: sleep 6serhythmbox-client —play-pause —> don’t type commands when...

Sep 21st

bytebot: earliest night evar? reading the blue PIL book to sleep… (its for Lua, duh!) (via...

Sep 21st

codeblog » catching stack overflows in gdb as...

Sep 21st

FOLLOWUP: Linux IS NOT ready for the...

Just to ensure, because it seems some people don’t understand English, but I never said people would...

Sep 21st

bytebot: observation: chopstick typing still exists! my dad’s not alone in this world…...

Sep 20th

bytebot: one thing i love about the devmeeting - there’s plenty of power sockets, everywhere....

Sep 20th

bytebot: @strausser: why? you’re too thin as it is, 10 pounds and you’ll be missing (via...

Sep 20th

bytebot: so i think i might be allergic to champagne. drink, and get a rash. twice now. seems odd...

Sep 20th

bytebot: @cait tell him a goodbye for me then ;) (via Twitter / bytebot)

Sep 20th

bytebot: @cait: is andrew and cathye leaving melbourne ? (via Twitter / bytebot)

Sep 20th

bytebot: whats happening at hoohaa twitterverse? (via Twitter / bytebot)

Sep 20th

bytebot: @strausser: annoyed by poetic writing?!? (via Twitter / bytebot)

Sep 20th

bytebot: travel is overrated, eugene (via Twitter / bytebot)

Sep 20th

bytebot: meetings, fun. feeling tired after last nights fun. much drinking (via Twitter / bytebot)

Sep 20th

bytebot: @strausser: of course, its just a statement from a bar (via Twitter / bytebot)

Sep 20th

Frank Hecker, Writings : What "Sales...

Sep 20th

bytebot: Germans are just like chinese. They drop into their language, without thinking about the...

Sep 20th

On-line Chinese Tools

Sep 19th

bytebot: @engineheart: ick. twice? didn’t know it was /that/ fun (via Twitter / bytebot)

Sep 19th

bytebot: @skinnylatte: tivo, youtube, video recordings. relax, you can still see your ex (via...

Sep 19th

Internet Super Hero » Blog Archive » PHP: 59...

Sep 19th

Philip Stoev / DBIx-MyParsePP-0.50 -...

Sep 19th

bytebot: browsing the apple store. will we see quad core powerbooks, erm, i mean, macbook pros soon?...

Sep 19th

bytebot: time to go for dinner! and a boat ride in heidelberg (via Twitter / bytebot)

Sep 18th

Interview with Jay Pipes, North American...

Sep 18th

bytebot: i am now of course wondering if i should replace my OS with Windows, and just run linux in...

Sep 18th

bytebot: i’ve decided that i’m sick of linux suspend/resume, because most of the time it...

Sep 18th

bytebot: linux seems to be like windows nowadays. sound stops working, reboot, and magically it...

Sep 18th

bytebot: how about that, my stupid sound card seems to not be allowing me to hear sound. now...

Sep 18th

MySQL Developer’s Meeting in Heidelberg

The MySQL Developer’s Meeting has started. The weather is pretty moderately okay, there’s occasional...

Sep 18th

bytebot: @engineheart: did you manage to take her to many locations so that she had a good time in...

Sep 18th

bytebot: had to do an fsck today after the repeated attempts of suspend/resume failures on my...

Sep 18th

Safely change firewall rules remotely - Ask...

Sep 18th

Linux IS NOT ready for the laptop

When is Linux ready for the desktop? Or more likely, the laptop? Walt Mossberg recently has echoed...

Sep 18th

bytebot: large extended APC battery only gives me 4 hours of AC power with wifi turned on. how,...

Sep 18th

bytebot: man, enjoying all the old 70s-80s music here. bee gees, abba, boney m. i’m impressed...

Sep 18th

Too many connections: MySQL and Oracle...

Sep 18th

MySQL AB :: MySQL AB Trademark Policy...

Sep 18th

bytebot: “This company leaks.” Role is not to please customers, but to serve them. They...

Sep 18th

bytebot: Engineers want to be market driven, but not be driven by marketing. Thats product...

Sep 17th

xTuple : Open Source software solutions to...

Sep 17th

PostgreSQL: Why PostgreSQL Instead of MySQL:...

Sep 17th

PostgreSQL for Solaris - Support &...

Sep 17th

PostgreSQL Performance Pitstop

Sep 17th

How to upload big files - TYPO3Wiki

Sep 17th

bytebot: @skinnylatte: coolness, thanks. evil wordpress. i’ll past the url in the comments...

Sep 17th

bytebot: @eugeneteo: isn’t that a good thing? (via Twitter / bytebot)

Sep 17th

bytebot: “Something went wrong in our database adding that fellowship. We are contrite.”...

Sep 17th

bytebot: gawds, can the interwebs be any slower at this hotel? i know its a rathaus and all, but...

Sep 17th

bytebot: annoyed that tag separation in scribefire is comma separated but not auto-added. Uploadr is...

Sep 17th

Best way to learn Mandarin in GNU/Linux...

What’s a good, quick way, to learn a new language with the help of Linux? In particular, I’m...

Sep 17th

bytebot: morning twitterverse. 6.30am and i seem to be awake. brr. also, why does twitter think 140...

Sep 17th

Zimbra acquired by Yahoo! -...

Its exciting to see Zimbra being purchased for USD$350 million, by Yahoo!. Exciting because its a...

Sep 17th

Travel Updates: Tokyo/Japan,...

So, I’ve left Tokyo, and we had an amazing last dinner there at a sushi place, and I think both Kaj...

Sep 16th

UC-J Day 2 photos

Its been a while since I last blogged. I’ve shifted through many countries now, since my post on...

Sep 16th

bytebot: dear twitterverse, what’s the best way to learn mandarin quickly? conversational...

Sep 16th

bytebot: @jackerhack: oh, i fell in love with beijing back when i first went there in 2004…...

Sep 16th

bytebot: @jackerhack: don’t you already have a girlfriend at home/in india? (via Twitter /...

Sep 16th

Yang Jia (aka “Jia Jia”): From Mongol....

Sep 16th

Yang Jia (aka “Jia Jia”): From Mongol....

Sep 16th

bytebot: A couple of noteworthy things: showing off the baby bump is cool, and there are lots of...

Sep 16th

bytebot: Sitting in airport, wishing i could listen to Gwen. Can you believe there are no electrical...

Sep 15th

bytebot: I like you like a rat loves rice in barley. Wonder if thats correct? So not wanting to...

Sep 15th

bytebot: about to leave beijing. see you in germany/heidelberg late tonight or something. (via...

Sep 15th

bytebot: @eugeneteo: you are married! @aizatto: phone cam crap, but it’ll have to do....

Sep 15th

bytebot: its official. i don’t want to leave beijing. wo xi huan ni, jia jia. now all i need...

Sep 15th

bytebot: so, dinner was nice. she’s a thoughtful girl. even bought me a gift! this is what...

Sep 13th

bytebot: t-minus 20 minutes to go for my dinner with the hot receptionist at the office. always...

Sep 13th

bytebot: am all talked out for the day. slept at 4am, up at 7.30am, presentations all day, lost in...

Sep 13th

Open Source Database Migration - A Knowledge...

Sep 13th

MySQL AB :: MySQL 5.1 Reference Manual ::...

Sep 13th

bytebot: how i loathe thee, wired interwebs. (via Twitter / bytebot)

Sep 13th