Author: Tommy
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This is the time of year I electronically dust off the addresses of friends and acquaintances, old and new, and ask myself over a cup of hot chocolate, “Do they still live there? How much is postage these days? Do I even know how to write something that isn’t my…
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A long, long time ago, LEGO announced their new Collectors Star Destroyer. It was their largest set at the time and I being a long time LEGO maniac, I had to have it. It took many weeks to build, and has been one of my prize possessions which I’ve flaunted…
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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 the unexpected…
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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,…
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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 more webservers is…
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I don’t have anything special to say. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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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…
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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 never needed one.…
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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…