Archive for September, 2009

MySQL: Bug or feature?

Here’s one ‘feature’ that I bumped into and scratched my head over for a while, until it occurred to me what was happening. It appears that, if you are using replication, when you enable replication only on select databases (instead of all databases and excluding what you don’t want to replicate), you are running the [...]

District 9

Went to see District 9 today and it was awesome. I can only best describe it as a curious mix between a thought-provoking sci-fi and a (gruesome and) satisfying action flick. Peter Jackson, Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell have really managed to pull off a believable parallel universe, in which aliens have inexplicably stumbled across Earth and [...]