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A way to spend Christmas Week 30 Dec 2012 | 08:14 pm
The time between Christmas and New Years is the slowest time of the year. Large portion of my team is on vacation and the customer activity is reduced to emergencies and routine maintenance. For me ...
Bizarre ways of american elections 7 Nov 2012 | 06:48 pm
On the big election day in American I often end up thinking how bizarre American president election is, which in my opinion does not make the best leaders possible being elected as well as causes all ...
Keep it green – do not upgrade your iPhone 14 Sep 2012 | 06:27 am
We’re back again in iPhone mania season with so many people dreaming upgrading to yet another new gadget. And there are really so many reasons to do that. It is amazing how Apple and other phone man...
On Namespaces 21 Aug 2012 | 03:30 am
It is interesting to see how namespaces evolve in the Internet…. I find it especially interesting the move in importance from Open namespaces to the Closed ones, controlled by specific companies. In e...
Freak out your customers. Ask them everything twice. 22 Nov 2011 | 03:58 am
When I call my bank they ask me to enter my debit card number when as I am connected with associate he asks me the card number again as well as last numbers of SSN for verification purposes. Same hap...
What you want to sell and what people want to buy 16 Mar 2011 | 10:41 am
As you might have seen we have announced our MySQL Support offering which includes pricing per server. Did not I frequently said pricing per server makes little sense ? Yes I did. So why are we hav...
Class Actions 29 Dec 2010 | 10:40 am
If you’ve lived in the USA for long enough you surely have gotten mails about you being members of some “Class Action” suite. These are amazing. The email just landed in my mailbox about Dell doing...
4 types of Bias and dealing with them 9 Nov 2010 | 05:55 pm
At Percona we always try to do our business in a way to control our bias. I say control not eliminate as I believe this is not possible to achieve whole 100 percent. Human mind is wired to be biased ...
Minimal Wage, Govermnent Dependency and Education 30 Sep 2010 | 05:20 am
There are minimum wage laws in most developed countries. Is it a good thing ? Austrian school of Economics argues it is not as this means there are some jobs which are not created which otherwise woul...
Picking a NetBook, 2010 Edition 27 Sep 2010 | 10:17 am
My Samsung NC10 Netbook was a good choice at the time, though as time went its Intel Atom 270 showed itself being more and more limited as web sites grew more complicated and video moving to use of mo...
