Month: January 2005

1. It snows in Massachusetts — why can’t people drive in it?
2. I am going home in a few minutes.
3. Buy the Sonics. [here and here]

You have heard the Sonics — Think Land Rover. [here: The Edge and The Split].

Seattle Garage Band…yeah you have heard that before. But from 1962-1967?

Their music sounds like someone took the masters and dragged them behind a Land Rover…on Titan, then committed them to wax. I am amazed that the recording needle didn’t go through the wax when they made these albums.

And the ads cleaned up the sound!

Coming of age in my musical appreciatin in Victoria, BC, the Sonics were a normal part of the background noise that I heard. And everyone covered them, especially The Witch and Strychnine. And you haven’t heard Louie, Louie until you hear the Sonics version…with the amps at 11.

Buy these cds. Buy these cds. Buy these cds. Buy these cds. Buy these cds. Buy these cds. Buy these cds. Buy these cds. Buy these cds. Buy these cds. Buy these cds. Buy these cds. Buy these cds. Buy these cds.

Then put your ScobelizerHeadphones on and melt your mind. No one will notice; it’s a snow day.

I have a new book: High Performance MySQL

Looks like I may have to make some configuration changes.

Thanks to Jeremy Zawodny for writing this.

The strange thing, I know people like this.

A lot of them…

Ok, I am one…

Gotta run; have to re-build the kernel on my Orbiting Brain Lasers…

Jennifer Rice has some great comments on blogging and evangelism.

Evangelism is key to what I want to evolve to professionally. It involves developing my skills and desire to such a point that I infect everyone I meet with the same enthusiasm I have for my area of interest.

Catch-phrases ("Be your own brand", "Get on the cluetrain", "blog or die") are meaningless to me. They all boil down to loving what you do.

Read Tom Peters’ blog sometime. Whenever I am flagging or in a funk, I read him. His passion for what he does invigorates me. Find those people and work with them.

Be all that you can be. [Apologies to the Army.]

Jeremy Wright, master of Ensight, is going to be in Napa this week.

Life is tough for the A-List Bloggers top-tier, uber-connected bloggers.

[Jeremy is vehement that he is not an A-Lister.]

For those that use the GrabPERF system, or the performance libraries on the site, I have posted a PayPal Donation button.

Costs for developing, documenting, and maintaining the site is starting to mount, and the wear and tear on my very ancient systems is starting to show. In order to bring the GrabPERF system up to snuff, I will need new database and Web server machines in the very new future, a cost that I have no hope of covering.

Plans to expand the system beyond the single measurement location cannot go ahead without a more stable, secure and appropriate hosting environment.

If you use the GrabPERF System and want to see it improved, please donate.

Rick Heller on Blog Name Hijacking.

When my Blogger space was hijacked (after I had abandoned it), someone else took it over, name and all.

Just sad to see that this is going to become an issue.

Go here. Put on headphones. Be in awe.

I really wish I was there. But then again, I am not an A-List blogger.

Blogging is great for me. But it is not likely that I could make it an adjunct to a successful career. I look at the A-list bloggers, and they have all had careers that I have dreamed of, but have never been able to breakthrough into.

• No MBA
• No Money
• No lucky break
• No brush with fame or infamy

I look at the world and wonder how you get there. How do you take your passion and turn it into a career?

I know I can…and there are a ton of you out there who know that. It’s just that most of them are in Seattle right now!