Have I got an update for you! But not now. For now, I want to say Happy Systems Administration Day to all you admins out there, and a huge shoutout to everyone on the Six Apart Operations team. You performed brilliantly this week.

Six Apart is looking to expand our team with another kick ass Mysql DBA. If you have experience working with Mysql in large scale systems with emphasis on high availability send me your resume please!

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I've been brain-deep in work for the past couple of days, but Jeremy Cole made my night by showing me his latest patch for Mysql - a progress indicator!

The Progress_rows number indicates progress within a given step of executing the query. For instance, if you run a SELECT with a GROUP BY that can’t be done using an index, you will see two ( Read more... )

I'm here in Tokyo for work, but the second most frequent activity is eating! We've had pizza a couple of times in the office during busy days from the Pizza Hut across the street. While the name is the same, that's about where the similiarties end. Oh, except they have the cheesy puffy crust which I vaguely remember being marketed in the states. So ( Read more... )

Garth (my travel partner for this trip) and I made a day trip on shinkansen to another coworker's family home in Hakone, which is famous for onsen (hot springs). The hot springs are literally running down the street! We're stopping our eating and walking for a bit of work, and later on are going to be enjoying some nabe. I just got a CNN breaking ( Read more... )

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You probably wouldn't know it from looking at me, but I've been in a relationship with the same man for the last five and a half years. We're not married, have never lived together, and currently I live about 1,000 miles away from him ( Read more... )

Roller Derby update