iamcal.com Since May 2000

if this isn't a sign of the coming apocalypse, i don't know what is. phones for pets. phones. for. pets. PHONES. FOR. PETS.

the css zen garden, 1990's style. nopw those are some high quality animations.

backed up for later - the innodb hot backup script. faster than restoring from a dump, but more prone to corruption.

linux io redirction - saved for later use. why can i never rememebr how to do this crap?

an earthworm jim database. awesome. it's like a webpage from the early 90s. doug tennaple is a genius.

gah. f was down for 5 hours after a routine database modification revealed massive innodb corruption which had somehow replicated to the slave. after splitting the cluster, our last backup was nine days old and a few million records short. eek. so a painstaking search and destroy for bad records was conducted. stupid mysql.

stew suspects that david chess has the world's bext weblog.

best self referential headline ever? quite possibly. [via stewart]

while reformating exif display on flickr i cam across this wonderfully tedious explaination of f/stops.

i usually avoid gizmodo linkage, but the keychain plants are too cool for school.