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Linux and H/W optimizations for MySQL

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good stuff: http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2011/public/schedule/detail/17111 http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/56/Linux%20and%20H_W%20optimizations%20for%20MySQL%20Presentation.pdf

copyright

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amen break Video explains the world’s most important 6-sec drum loop good copy, bad copy

The Light Bulb Conspiracy

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Documentary on planned obsolescence: http://vimeo.com/41567964 some parts are in French, Spanish, German, but then again there are very helpful Norwegian subtitles. worth seeing anyway.

innodb_stats_sample_pages to save a day

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i’ve run into nasty instability in mysql’s query execution plan joining few tables with 10s of millions of rows. mysql 5.1’s innodb_stats_sample_pages seem to solve the problem.

opera mini 6 + rss feed

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opera mini is a great mobile web browser. new release just got out; yet rss [quite an important features for me] seems to be a sort of neglected functionality. here’s how to get it to work in v6.

darwinian theory of beauty

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darwinian theory of beauty http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/denis_dutton_a_darwinian_theory_of_beauty.html toward a psychology of business http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tzyrxdca-Y
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andalucia/algarve/extramedura

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seem that it is my yearly routine. i was in spain/portugal for 2 weeks visiting places i know and discovering some new ones. all in march 2011.

The Brain: A Secret History

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by Michael Mosley mind control http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvKQAYQT0bE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzcWcLxeQ48 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v30ZEGH9uGk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRBcP34W_ec http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u9D64_nfkA emotions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjlC91QmoNY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88ltcqZUd9g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb3L_Qt_GU8 broken brains http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t_r8qdKASA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKQrOcV14iE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM6e5upTJAA