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I’ve Been Can-Passed

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

And friends, somewhere in Washington, enshrined in some little folder, is a study in black and white of my fingerprints.
Ok, so replace Washington with Ottawa and fingerprints with scan-of-my-iris and you have the general idea.
As you may or may not know, I fly to the United States on a fairly regular basis. It seems that […]

A Good Reason To Save Aeroplan Miles

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Too bad some of the better looking conferences are so far away…
The eLiberatica conference in Romania is one such example. The speaker list looks great with a nice mix of local speakers in a country that is really getting on the FOSS bandwagon.
Time to save the miles up for next year.

We Need a Support Engineer

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

My employer has grown its customer base to the point that we need a full-time Support Engineer. This is a great chance for someone experienced in support to head up a new support team, building the processes and infrastructure to support a pool of customers into the future.
If you’re interested in doing support for a […]

Speaking at the 2007 MySQL Conference

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

I just got word today that I will be speaking at the 2007 MySQL Conference.
I’ll be doing a three hour tutorial version of my popular 2006 session on Managing Data Hierarchies (strangely they backdated my title in last year’s session listing; I was a Technical Writer for MySQL AB at the time).
This year session I […]

The Fun Never Ends

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

So what happened? Well, two days ago I noticed connection issues while trying to create a blog post on MySQL’s new enterprise offering (more on that later). I sent in a support request to Tera-Byte, my colocation provider. After a while I checked and noticed that I could connect via SSH, but that the server […]