fultonfam.com

Just thought I’d blog really quickly saying I made it here safely. I couldn’t get my ftp to my website to work to load pictures here, so I’m putting pictures at this website.

http://picasaweb.google.com/christopher.fulton

Today just happens to be Rachel’s 25th birthday! Rachel has to work a tiny bit during the day, but we’re planning on going out tonight to see Wall-E and then watching some birthday-works at Bridge Street. HAPPY BIRTHDAY RACHEL!

As I sit here in my office listening to the distant jingle of an ice-cream truck, I can’t help but ponder some of my childhood memories. The most random things often bring back random memories. I faintly remember getting ice-cream as a kid from a much similar truck. I’d hear the ring from miles away (ok, maybe blocks, but to a young kid, a block is a mile), and always ask for money for ice-cream. Most of the time my childish dreams of sweet goodness were shut down by the harsh reality that one cannot always have everything one wants. But, every so often, if I was exceptionally good that day (or exceptionally cunning and asked my grandpa, who shared my affinity for ice cream), I would get the beloved “yes,” here’s some money, now go get something. Next came the riveting task of choosing the perfect confectionery delight. Did I want ice cream, or something fruity? Which item would give me the most satisfaction for the money I had to spend? What item was the best value for my dollar? Yes, even at a young age I spent countless hours figuring out what was the BEST choice before deciding. I could spend hours choosing nickel candies, just to make sure that I got the perfect one. After all, most days my dreams of ice cream were shot down, so on those few days I got it, I had to make the correct decision. Then, whether it be an ice cream cone or a frozen popsicle, I would go off to enjoy my sugary delight. Now, I wasn’t one to eat extremely slowly, especially when it came to frozen delights. After all, a melted ice cream cone is a wasted ice cream cone. But, I would enjoy my frozen confection to the very last bite. Then, I’d yearn for the next day I got the beloved “yes”.

find . -maxdepth 5 -name ‘*iso’ -print -exec du -hk ‘{}’ \; | awk ‘((NR % 2) == 0) {print}’ | awk ‘{print $1}’ | awk ‘{sum += $1;} END { print sum;}’

In case you ever needed to find all of the iso’s in the current directory, recursing up to 5 directories down, and then print out the summed size of the iso’s, this command will do that for you.. “find” is a pretty powerful command…

So, today at the MySQL conference there was a presentation by Kickfire. I am interested in hearing more about this technology. The basic idea is having a “SQL Chip” to help speed up SQL all together. Right now it seems like a lot of PR and marketing, but I’d like to look more into it. From the very little I’ve heard the idea is to help speed up SQL by reducing IO load, as well as having SQL talk more directly to the builtin memory. I’m not completely sure how this works, but I plan on researching it more. I asked one of the people about the pricing, and he was saying that they are still working on it, but plan on having a pricepoint start at around 21K/box and then on up from there. I’ll try to blog more about this as I learn more information.