Going corporate really *is* good for your wealth

Payday! Company pension scheme! I'm even investing money now!
My soul goes cheap, but I really can't complain now.

ahem

I'm back to blogspot for a while, a bit tired of taking care of a custom-solution. My current interests are not very web-related, so I suppose I can tolerate a mainstream, slow and unflexible solution like Blogger. The next few posts will probably be about my puny attempts at learning Qt via the Python bindings, building some sort of bibliographic-metadata software (interested? drop me a line: g dot lacava at gmail.com), plus some everyday Linux maintenance zen. Or maybe about right-wing policies failing all over the world, the oncoming Chinese Quiet Empire, peak oil, and the twilight of the American Century. I suppose my weekly commute to Cardiff to see my gf will get the odd post or two. And some pictures from the shiny new Samsung Z500 phone I have with me. But no cats.

Dev Shed - Using Subqueries In MySQL (part 1) - Opiate Of The Masses

Dev Shed - Using Subqueries In MySQL: "One of the newest features in MySQL, and one of its most eagerly-anticipated ones, is subqueries. Subqueries have been on the MySQL wishlist for a while; they've finally made an appearance in MySQL 4.1" You don't know how much subqueries are useful until you can't have them.

Jon's Radio

Jon Udell: "Define a simple RSS 2.0 module for job metadata. Deliver a job feed that's enriched with data in that module's namespace. Invite one or more RSS aggregators to support it. It would be a win-win for everybody. " Oh yeah, I would certainly kill for a job-aggregator, especially now...

Slashdot | Bob The Builder Gets A Personality Transplant

Slashdot | Bob The Builder Gets A Personality Transplant: "'Bob the IT support guy!' 'Bob the IT support guy!' 'can he fix it?!?' 'No he can't, because that's not his department, it's a software issue and it was raised with management over a month ago'"