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More wacky zany antics from those madcap nutbars at Telstra. They bought whereis a while back, which is ironic considering Telstra aren’t particularly known for getting places on time.
So anyway I was entering an address today, and I’m a little off my skull at the moment, so I accidentally entered the name of the place into the street field. Always helpful, it came back and said the place didn’t exist, without offering any alternatives, or bothering to put it into the white pages for me just in case.
Then I saw this weird second tabbed box behind the main address box. It was marked “place”, as opposed to “address”. Duh I thought, and after recovering from hitting myself in the head somewhat stronger than I was expecting to, I clicked on the “place” tab.
Did I mention that I was using a Mac and Safari?
And so I clicked on the “place” tab. I clicked on the “place” tab. I clicked on the &*^*#@$^(*&^ “place” tab!
Apparently Mac folks aren’t allowed find out where a “place” is, but at least we can still see and click on their ads.
For more Telstra fun and frivolity, check out my other Telstra rants.
A lot of Internet Explorer’s rendering inconsistencies can be fixed by giving an element “layout”.
I’ve always hated SQL. From the day I installed one of the first IBM VM/SP versions on our 4361 mainframe back in the early 1980s, until today, with still no end in sight. It ran like a dog back then, which is geek speak for s l o w l y, and still has a whole swag of issues to deal with which ignorant sysadmins and amateur database architects still get wrong.
So the other day I converted this blog from using super fast Perl DBI hash ties, in which I’ve simulated a relational database, to good ol’ SQL, MySQL in particular. The choice was not mine, but the complexity of some code I was working on, which needed a bit more order than ordinal arrays of pseudo database columns.
Anyway, so I converted the code over, and it runs like, you guessed it, a dog. It was initially taking 30 seconds to load the main page, and then the following day that stretched out to about 5 minutes. Once a dog, always a dog.
My hosting provider then found a server problem, which they haven’t fully fixed or conveyed to me yet, but the site is running a little faster now, which saves a bit of backout work. Suffice to say, it may not be MySQL, but I like to tar everything with the same brush, so MySQL it is.
SQL, the COBOL of databases.