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Category Archives: Sundry

A dumping ground for miscellany; the amusing, the thought-provoking, the otherwise memorable.

2^18 of 2^24

by Rob Friesel

Slashdot Posting Bug Infuriates Haggard Admins: Last night we crossed over 16,777,216 comments in the database. The wise amongst you might note that this number is 2^24, or in MySQLese an unsigned mediumint. Unfortunately, like 5 years ago we changed our primary keys in the comment table to unsigned int (32 bits, or 4.1 billion) […]

Monday night brain dump

by Rob Friesel

A windsurfing, CSS-grudging, IE7-hating, web-developing, gigantic-machine-puzzling friend joins the blogging fray HiveLogic has a new Mac Pro: and wants you (me? us?) to name it Pete is rocking DC’s house party scene and Ben has the picture to prove it (don’t let the over-exposure fool you, this photo was NOT taken in 1977) I’ve made […]