Wedding Expressions suck

'Wedding Expressions' are a bad business.

Too Legit To Quit

"One "goes dumb" because he can escape the reality of feeling abandoned and left out from a society that isn't addressing his pain and frustration. The lack of hope, opportunity and employment eats at a man's conscience and psyche like maggots on the dead. My value and contribution to family and community is found in my ability to provide for my family and support the community with resources. I escape the pressures of this reality momentarily in my dance. In the dance I let go and I'm free." -MC Hammer's new blog

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Early morning San Francisco.

Oracle buys Sleepycat

It's finally official: Oracle bought Sleepycat, makers of Berkeley DB. On the Sleepycat site, they have a small whitepaper about how Google uses Berkeley DB for Google Accounts.

Back in 2003, I attended a training session on Berkeley DB run by Keith Bostic. I will have to dig up my notes.

I have always had a soft spot for Berkeley DB but working with it can be a frustrating experience. When I was first hired at Pyra, I was tasked with building a demo of Blogger that ran in a radically different way than the current Blogger.com does. I built it using Berkeley DB. It was fun but we ended up never releasing it.

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Our hallway.

Whoops

I misspelled maintenance.

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Awesome!

One of these things is not like the other

One of these things does not belong.

According to Engadget, the Royal Navy has launched six new Destroyers. Their names: Daring, Dauntless, Diamond, Defender, Dragon, and Duncan.

Google techtalks on Google Video

One of the things I like most about working at Google are all the speakers who come and lecture us on various issues. Sometimes people are too busy with their day job to attend these talks and so they are recorded for posterity.

Lucky for me. And now lucky for you because it looks like we have started posting a small collection of them online.