Sunday, August 24, 2008
SAMURAIPicture posted to Flickr by emiya_xxx at 11:39 on July 2nd ’08
Added to my Flickr favourites at 22:33.
Tags: 1on1shadow/silhouettesphotooftheweek, 1on1shadow/silhouettesphotooftheweekAugust2008, M, bw, portrait, samurai
for our friend Samurai 侍
Monday, August 18, 2008
heart-themed breakfastPicture posted to Flickr by squirrelmonkey (Fiona Miller) at 08:25 on August 18th ’08.
Tags: bacon, breakfast, cutlery, egg, fried, heart, monday, morning, plate, tea, white
Mebachi Maguro(tuna) 清水港
Picture posted to Flickr by eiichi-scart (eiichi) at 16:26 on July 18th ’08
Added to my Flickr favourites at 09:41.
Tags: 5290.jpg, shimizuport
eiichi’s comment:
Picture posted to Flickr by eiichi-scart (eiichi) at 16:26 on July 18th ’08
Added to my Flickr favourites at 09:41.
Tags: 5290.jpg, shimizuport
メバチマグロの脳天や頬肉などを捌く最中
shimizu port
shizuoka
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
LurkingPicture of Enforcement episode taken at 12:58 on August 9th.
Tags: liverpool street, liverpool street station, london, police
Liverpool Street Station, Bishopsgate, City of London
Déesse
Stuff incident experienced at 13:26 on August 8th. Posted in Igor’s stuff at 22:57.
Tags: barthes, car, citroën, citroën ds, deesse, ds, déesse, french, goddess, mythologies, roland, sign, signifier, symbol
“The D.S. - the ‘Goddess’ - has all the features (or at least the public is unanimous in attributing them to it at first sight) of one of those objects from another universe which have supplied fuel for the neomania of the eighteenth century and that of our own science-fiction: the Deesse is first and foremost a new Nautilus […] There are in the D.S. the beginnings of a new phenomenology of assembling, as if one progressed from a world where elements are welded to a world where they are juxtaposed and hold together by sole virtue of their wondrous shape, which of course is meant to prepare one for the idea of a more benign Nature.”
From “Citroën D.S.”, an essay in Roland Barthes’ 1957 collection Mythologies.
Stuff incident experienced at 13:26 on August 8th. Posted in Igor’s stuff at 22:57.
Tags: barthes, car, citroën, citroën ds, deesse, ds, déesse, french, goddess, mythologies, roland, sign, signifier, symbol
From “Citroën D.S.”, an essay in Roland Barthes’ 1957 collection Mythologies.
All going on
Picture of Enforcement episode taken at 23:10 on August 2nd.
Tags: griffin, leonard street, london, police, pub
Several vans showed up outside the boozer; couple of police came in to the pub but I couldn't really make out what they were doing. Seemed to be a lot of activity outside and the bar staff were gesturing towards a couple of people but nothing serious seemed to occur.
Outside the Griffin pub, Leonard Street, Shoreditch, London
Picture of Enforcement episode taken at 23:10 on August 2nd.
Tags: griffin, leonard street, london, police, pub
Outside the Griffin pub, Leonard Street, Shoreditch, London
Busted
Picture of Enforcement episode taken at 13:19 on August 7th.
Tags: cuffs, london, police, shoreditch, shoreditch high street
These two stopped and questioned this guy for a few minutes before slapping the cuffs on him. I came past again maybe 5 minutes later and they were still stood there talking to him, his hands still cuffed.
Outside Tesco, Shoreditch High Street, London E2
Picture of Enforcement episode taken at 13:19 on August 7th.
Tags: cuffs, london, police, shoreditch, shoreditch high street
Outside Tesco, Shoreditch High Street, London E2
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
A Bunch of Great Strategies for Using Memcached and MySQL Better TogetherWritten by Todd Hoff in High Scalability - Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites. on August 5th.
I added it to my “starred items” in Google Reader at 00:43 on August 6th.
The primero recommendation for speeding up a website is almost always to add cache and more cache. And after that add a little more cache just in case. Memcached is almost always given as the recommended cache to use. What we don't often hear is how to effectively use a cache in our own products. MySQL hosted two excellent webinars (referenced below) on the subject of how to deploy and use memcached. The star of the show, other than MySQL of course, is Farhan Mashraqi of Fotolog…
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Sphinx - Free open-source SQL full-text search engineBookmarked on del.icio.us at 10:31.
Tags: cache, database, db, geek, programming, software, sphinx, sql
Adds a searchable external index of specified data, meaning fast searches without db joins/FULLTEXTs etc.
Saturday, August 2, 2008
ChryslerThought formulated in Igor’s thoughts at 17:21.
Tags: maine, me, ME, USA, america, boot, car, chrysler, holiday, holiday 2007, indian summer, maine, new england, portland, portland, portland, rust
As I straighten from my crouch, a young woman approaches me, an equally young man in tow. The boy, uncertain, sports a shock of orange hair; the girl wields a Sony DSLR and a resolute expression. We stand face to face, exchanging an expectant stare as though each would read the other’s intention through the eye – and, almost defiantly, she raises the camera and steals in turn a snap from me.
She lowers her device, holds my gaze for a moment, and walks calmly away. The boy follows. Not a word is spoken.
I stand for a moment, let it pass without question, and feel free.
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