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Lord help me, I’ve created a Facebook account.

The fact that I did that surprised me. But you know what surprised me even more? Facebook is kind of cool. I feel dirty even thinking it, but I’ve hooked up with a couple friends from high school and learned some new things about some current friends.

Who’da thunk?

‘What will your obituary say?’ at QuizGalaxy.com

Doesn’t seem accurate somehow. Especially the Paris Hilton thing. She won’t actually miss me that much. Although the hysterical laughter thing? That might be right.

In reality, I want my tombstone to say, “I told you I was sick.”

It’s moments like these when I’m proud to be an American.

Amen.

Great hint here on how to customize the date and time formats allowed in Numbers ’08. I added YYYY-MM-DD for my SQL work. Beautiful.

I have to say that Numbers is a fantastic spreadsheet. The only major flaw I’ve found so far is the lack of a TEXT function, which I often use in Excel to pad data with leading zeroes.

Todd Ogasawara writes: Apple iWork ‘08 is available now and can read/write Office 2007 files. It has a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation app. It costs $79. I don’t think Office for Mac 2008 for Mac will be $79 (will it come in a bazillion versions like Office for Windows?). I’ve never used iWork but will guess it doesn’t support macros (big deal since Office won’t either).

Right on, Todd. Right on. I’ve been playing with the Numbers ’08 trial and it’s a lot of fun.

Dan writes: Honestly, I don’t know if this can be stopped. It sure as won’t be stopped by electing a different puppet into the White House… that whole process is just another form of distraction, another form of our own disempowerment. Especially this time around… just look at how Hollywood-esque this election is turning out to be.

That’s fine and all, but there’s a far greater threat looming that Dan seems to be ignoring (related Slashdot discussion here).

John Gruber is spot on, cheap once again:

Writing an email is like writing an article. Only quote the relevant parts, cialis interspersing your new remarks between the quoted passages. Don’t quote anything at all from the original message if you don’t have to.

Top posting drives me crazy.

No, I haven’t. This greeting card spam is really getting annoying. I’m getting bombarded with this stuff.

That is all.

PostgreSQL first real benchmark has been published:

This publication shows that a properly tuned PostgreSQL is not only as fast or faster than MySQL, but almost as fast as Oracle (since the hardware platforms are different, it’s hard to compare directly). This is something we’ve been saying for the last 2 years, and now we can prove it.

For open source database nuts, this is awesome news. PostgreSQL has had a more mature feature set than MySQL for years, and now they have a faster database to boot. Throw in the far less restrictive BSD license, and I see no reason whatsoever to use MySQL for any serious application.

This. Is. Awesome.

From the article:

Over the weekend, 7-Eleven Inc. turned a dozen stores into Kwik-E-Marts, the fictional convenience stores of “The Simpsons” fame, in the latest example of marketers making life imitate art. Those stores and most of the 6,000-plus other 7-Elevens in North America will sell items that until now existed only on television: Buzz Cola, KrustyO’s cereal and Squishees, the slushy drink knockoff of Slurpees.

Found link via Slashdot.

I wonder if they have any sugar-free Squishees…