A collection of thoughts, quotes, jokes, .. which I posted as status updates on Facebook. My favorites are bold (no pun intended).

They say sucking is a newborn instinct we forget; some people, however, keep sucking their whole lives.

Love has the symbol ♡; what symbol would hate have?

Putting MySQL Cluster on virtual machines and expect it to behave.

If only my wallet was as big as my heart..

If you dwell long enough in shit, you forget it stinks.

A System that is not Intuitive is not a System.

Sometimes it’s better to wait for the fire to see how to actually extinguish it. Standing ready with a bucket of water, just to find out that the

MySQL (http://www.mysql.com) v5.5 is GA and my blog, using WordPress 3.0, runs on it.

My personal highlight of this new MySQL version? The fact that it is released by Oracle.

A few SQL queries are worth a thousands words:

mysql> SELECT VERSION();
+----------------+
| VERSION()      |
+----------------+
| 5.5.6-rc-debug |
+----------------+

mysql> SELECT @@global.storage_engine;
+-------------------------+
| @@global.storage_engine |
+-------------------------+
| InnoDB                  |
+-------------------------+

(Note: the above is without using the default storage engine option)

Scary! Excitement! MySQL!

A few SQL queries are worth a thousands words:

mysql> SELECT VERSION();
+----------------+
| VERSION()      |
+----------------+
| 5.5.6-rc-debug |
+----------------+

mysql> SELECT @@global.storage_engine;
+-------------------------+
| @@global.storage_engine |
+-------------------------+
| InnoDB                  |
+-------------------------+

(Note: the above is without using the default storage engine option)

Scary! Excitement! MySQL!

This is a friendly reminder to check the publication date and discussed version you MySQL books before starting out hacking or even posting about limitations. Lots of old books are still going around. Maybe it's good to destroy them rather than giving them to students or newbies.

Few days ago (28 May 2010), for example, we had a word-for-word copy of a book on a blog post (now removed) which was discussing MySQL Cluster limitations from years ago. Well, it was funny at first and we had a good laugh. But it's a bit worrisome. My colleague Matthew posted a rebuttal post.

How would you recycle the old, technical books? It's not worth giving them to public libraries, it's maybe unhealthy