WombatNation

While it was tempting to write this post in all caps, that would cause me too much pain.

Yesterday I received my first ever 419-style spam/scam by US Postal mail. It was actually posted from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, with a cool rhino stamp that cost somebody 800 Tanzanian shillings, which is currently about 55 US cents.

My correspondent is allegedly CHARLES TAYLOR (JNR), son of Liberian strong man Charles Taylor. Daddy is now locked up in The Hague awaiting trial for his role in the civil war in Sierra Leone. And, no, he did not have a role in the design of the classic Converse sneakers, though it hasn’t been proven yet that Naomi Campbell didn’t decorate her chucks with sanguine diamonds courtesy of the Chuckster. Seems like Chuckie, Jr., is reaching out to people in Spain, as well.

It’s a pretty sweet offer, as I would be in line for a minimum of nearly $90 million USD.

I’ve very excited to be speaking on Logging Application Behavior to MongoDB at Mongo SV 2010 in Mountain View on December 3rd. Interest in the conference has soared and 10Gen is now expecting 500 attendees. Just a week ago, they were at 300 attendees. They had to add a fourth track of talks to handle the interest.

If you’re going to be at Mongo SV, please let me know or look for me at the conference. I’ll obviously be easy to find between 2:45 and 3:30 pm.

In my talk I’m planning to cover:

• Why MongoDB is useful for application logging
• Strategies for logging to MongoDB
• Commonalities in logging libraries
• General purpose and MongoDB-specific logging libraries for:
  • Java
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • PHP
  • C#/.NET
• Analyzing logs in MongoDB