http://www.lastcoolnameleft.com Tearing the Pants Off the World Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:07:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jason, Neil and I were invited to speak at the PHP track for the Tulsa Tech Fest It made for a fun road trip as well as a really good lesson learned for trying to code while presenting. In short: Don't. Too many things can go wrong and ... http://www.lastcoolnameleft.com/?p=230 Do we get special presents for palindrome years? 32 was a good year. Got married, went to Jamaica, moved into a kickass position inside Yahoo!, duckiehunt.com has taken off. I'm not sure what 33 will hold, but if the amount of facebook notifications I got wishing me a Happy Birthday, then ... http://www.lastcoolnameleft.com/?p=228 Yesterday, I did something I do only about 2-3 times a year, but would like to do more. I lead a Tech Talk which went very well. It was a discussion on how to scale MySQL so that you can support 10-100x your current traffic load. Adding ... http://www.lastcoolnameleft.com/?p=227 I don't have anything special to say. HAPPY NEW YEAR! http://www.lastcoolnameleft.com/?p=224 I attended a friend's Anniv. of the Repeal of Prohibition party on Friday. It was awesome with all of the costumes, libations, and even a secret password which you had to give though a sliding peephole to boot. We were reminicing about the Food and Spirits party when a friend ... http://www.lastcoolnameleft.com/?p=223 6 years is a long time to keep anything going. Especially an annual event. True, by the time the next year rolls around, you've forgotten how much work it was, but when you've got something like the Food & Spirits, it becomes with it each time. I learned some ... http://www.lastcoolnameleft.com/?p=220 On Monday, for the first time ever, I bought a flash drive. Considering that I also still don't have a DVD burner, many of my friends could consider this as being "behind the times". Instead, I think of this as being far ahead of the times. I've ... http://www.lastcoolnameleft.com/?p=218 Yes. I'm married. It happened. It's become obvious to me that a number of people still relate to me as my old party/bachelor-esque lifestyle. "I thought you'd never marry." "Last chance. I've got the car running if you want to bolt." "I was starting to wonder about you." -- My ... http://www.lastcoolnameleft.com/?p=213 I truly have some of the most amazing friends. I don't know really know what I would have done without them. And now that I've discovered what they've done to the house while I was gone, I'm really not sure what to do with them! Duckies. Duckies EVERYWHERE! 300 ... http://www.lastcoolnameleft.com/?p=210 For Kathy's Birthday, we went to see Eddie Izzard. I was concerned since I heard that he wasn't as funny outside of his original attire (read: In a dress), but it was a sold-out show and those can only mean good things, right? J.F.K. Charles Darwin Ducks Wikipedia No warm-up comedian. No ... http://www.lastcoolnameleft.com/?p=205