Dieting is not something people enjoy doing. It’s something that I’ve never done before this year with any sort of determination or any knowledge of what I was actually doing. That changed when a guy called Tim Ferriss released his second book, The 4 Hour Body. Tim Ferriss is probably best known for his other [...]
As with most things, it started with a tweet so that’s what’s gonna happen (without the calling into work sick of course). This Saturday, 30th July 2011, I’m going to the zoo and I want everyone else to come along too! The plan (so far) is to meet inside the gates of Dublin Zoo (after [...]
I’ve had a few issues recently with some of the databases I’m looking after. I run a centralised log collection system which grabs logs from all the servers I look after and put them on a server so I have somewhere useful to view them. The problem is that the servers are a chatty bunch [...]
While having a coffee earlier, the discussion of what gets installed after you format your machine came up. So, here’s my list: Windows 7 (Or the newest beta/RC of whatever Microsoft are releasing) Firefox (Newest Version) AdBlock Plus British English Dictionary DownThemAll! Firebug FireGestures FirePHP Greasemonkey Tab Mix Plus Web Developer Aptana (Or the newest [...]
A few weeks ago, I came up against an interesting problem with a simple MySQL query: select * from A where a_id not in (select b_id from B); I wanted to clear up the table A by removing anything that wasn’t being referenced in table B. Quite a simple operation but for some reason, I [...]