Over the last week or so I’ve been on a mission to improve the performance of my web server, and especially MySQL. I took Arne’s advice and turned on the query cache. That helped but I still needed to do more. After doing some research I discovered MySQL’s slow query log, which does exactly what… Continue reading Lack of Indexes on Ultimate Tag Warrior Tables
Month: March 2007
My Top 20+ Movies
In answer to Trader X’s question, here are some of my favorite movies. There’s no way I can rank them beyond maybe the first three. Nor could I stop at just twenty so with the help of my historical rankings on NetFlix I’ve gone 40 deep. Depending on my mood, any of these could be… Continue reading My Top 20+ Movies
Archived for Posterity: Kenneth Eng’s ‘Why I Hate Blacks’ Article
Just thought I’d archive some (more) ignorance: This is a copy of the controversial opinion piece by Kenneth Eng in Asian Week magazine: Here is a list of reasons why we should discriminate against blacks, starting from the most obvious down to the least obvious: • Blacks hate us. Every Asian who has ever come… Continue reading Archived for Posterity: Kenneth Eng’s ‘Why I Hate Blacks’ Article