Ooops

Note to self: Contact former employer, let them know of security hole I put in.

http://rdist.root.org/2009/10/29/stop-using-unsafe-keyed-hashes-use-hmac/

Postgres 8.5 will be _THE_ free db in < 12 months.

I'll make this short, as my opinion counts for little, and my writing style is stilted at best.
My prediction: Postgres 8.5 will become the free database of choice in < 12 months. (release Q1 2010)
I'm actually surprised at how soon after the 8.4 release we already have working patches for both streaming replication and Hot Standby (in other words Read only Master-Slave replication).  I heard an interesting fact/rumor at Seattle PGCon: Postgres is the #2 piece of software in Asia. (no real context of that metric, but interesting if true)

I think I'll wait for an alpha and give it a try.
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view?id=4

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Hot_Standby

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Streaming_Replication

Paxos Consensus protocol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_algorithm

http://svn.scalien.com/keyspace/trunk/doc/PaxosLease/PaxosLease.pdf

Multi Homing

http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/8/24/how-google-serves-data-from-multiple-datacenters.html

MemcacheD multie get hole...

http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/10/26/facebooks-memcached-multiget-hole-more-machines-more-capacit.html

Mushrooms (Again)

Agaricus Agustus? (The Prince)

Psilocybe Cyanescnes?:

Nerd!

This weekend I probably won the title of Nerdiest Man Alive with this Double headder:

Postgres Conference:
Various talks Saturday and Sunday: 
http://www.postgresqlconference.org/

Mycology exhibit:
Couple hours Saturday taking pictures and hearing lectures on Mushrooms:
http://www.psms.org/exhibit.html

Together at last: Mushrooms and Databases!

Unsurprisingly:  Male to female ratio at Postgres: 25 to 1.
Male to Female ratio at Mushroom show: 1 to 1.

Enjoyed Josh Berkus' talk on Postgres Performance:
http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-soup/

Vector Clock

An interesting wikipedia page I came across...
Another tool for my concurrency/distributed programming kit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_clock

Also.. I'm sure I'm late to the game but Ted Dziuba is a funny funny man.
http://teddziuba.com/