Waiting at Vancouver airport

Ok I admit it, I was chatting up the nice AirCanada lady at the check-in counter. Consequentially, she forgot to give me the luggage tag for my suitcase. Travelling from Canada to the US, you first check in (but don’t drop off your checked luggage), then actually go through US immigration “Welcome to the USA”, [...]

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Visiting the Seattle & Chicago MySQL UG meetups

Travelling on from Vancouver, I’ll be visiting the Seattle MySQL UG meetup on Monday, and the Chicago MySQL UG one on Wednesday. So if you want to catch me on my “world tour” and are in one of the above places, this is your chance

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UC2006 Wrap-Up

I would like to thank everybody for a very successful MySQL Users Conference 2006! I’ve been told there were over 1600 people, that’s absolutely fantastic and an increase of over 30% from last year. Those numbers are very nice of course, but I reckon it’s been successful because attendees have told me it was. That’s [...]

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Arriving in San Fancisco & Santa Clara

Arrived in Santa Clara for the conference, so this is my second (groundhog!) attempt at Friday April 21st. I even arrived before I left. Timezones and the intl.dateline are of fun. Should also remember that Europe is now ahead of me rather than behind… Colin, JD and I went for a good walk, so that [...]

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UC2006 tutorials selling out!

As predicted, the most popular tutorials at the MySQL Users Conference 2006 are selling out: MySQL Cluster Configuration, Tuning, and Maintenance MySQL Performance Optimization Replication for Scaling and High Availability Certification Primer: MySQL 5.0 DBA I Luckily, we can do some magic and have a few “double rooms” similar to last year. So, you might [...]

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Tasmania

Today I was at the OSS Forum day in Hobart, really interesting. I was honoured to do the opening keynote, which I think was very well received. I met and talked with many good people. There’s a lot going on here. Excellent. This evening talked at the local Linux users group (TasLUG) about MySQL 5.1, [...]

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