On Blogging…

The last time I posted here was six years ago. I decided to come back to try to see what changes have come to wordpress. I’ve lost the ability to blog and write over the years, so perhaps I might start doing it again here. I enjoy writing, but it takes time. Plus the content has to be compelling if you want others to read. I’m not sure what I’m going to write about here, if I do start to write. Lets see how this goes.

Testing again!

This is another test!

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Is there a way to import a blogger blog into a wordpress.com blog? I would think it would be relatively easy considering how well the importer in wordpress 2.0 works.

Cricinfo – Grace under fire

Cricinfo – Grace under fire

A short summary of some of the greatest innings by the Pakistan Captain Inzamam.

Inzamam-ul-Haq has often talked of the need to handle pressure as being the key to succeeding in international cricket. His best innings, as detailed below, have been compiled when the pressure has been at its greatest, and Inzamam at his most unflappable.

And from here:

Inzamam also has a great sense of timing, and not just with his square drives. He performs when it matters most, and he makes his performances count. Seventeen of Inzi’s 24 centuries have been in a winning cause, a proportion second only to Bradman. Inzamam’s performances also lift the batsmen around him. When he goes beyond 30, it is like a rising tide, and Pakistan’s average score per batsman jumps up by 10 runs, as pointed out by The Numbers Game. And though it appears unlikely that Inzamam will catch up with his great contemporaries in the number of centuries, he does have more scores of 50+ in international cricket than Brian Lara (156, to Lara’s 153). Tendulkar is well ahead on this count at 184.

Lowering the priority of a PostgreSQL query

Lowering the priority of a PostgreSQL query:

When maintaining a large database system that requires high availability, there are times when you want to run some maintenance queries without impacting the performance of other users accessing the database. A nightly script that cleans up old data or updates cached calculations is a good example: the maintenance should be performed, but not at the expense of other connected users.

(Via Big Nerd Ranch Weblog.)

I haven’t had the time to work on this blog! Will start as soon as I can.

First Post!