Monthly Archives: October 2009

Registered for OpenSQL Camp 2009

By | October 26, 2009

I’ll be in Portland on November 13, 14 and 15 for OpenSQL Camp, an unconference covering open source databases. In addition to learning more about MySQL and Drizzle internals, I’m looking forward to learning a bit about Postgres and some of the NoSQL database alternatives. They aren’t just your father’s high performance key-value stores, anymore.

Wombat Day

By | October 22, 2009

Thanks to my ever alert colleague, Rob, I’m celebrating Wombat Day today. I’ll be taking in my stuffed wombat that was handmade in Australia with what almost appears to be actual wombat hair, but I’m thinking is actually dyed wool.

A Symposium on Beer. Really?

By | October 12, 2009

After tasting my way through many beers, though a fraction of the total, at Dimond Oaktoberfest in my hood, I made my way over to Cal for 99 Bottles of Beer, a beer symposium, fair, workshop and exhibit. After getting the lay of the land at the beer fair, I started at the back with… Read More »

Dimond Oaktoberfest 2009

By | October 11, 2009

The second annual Dimond Oaktoberfest was even bigger than last year’s event. Unfortunately, I could stay only for a few hours, because I was also planning to attend the 99 Bottles of Beer beer symposium and beer fair at Hearst Museum at UC Berkeley. More on that later. Of course, a lot worse things could… Read More »