The Red Cross describes civilian life in Iraq as "unbearable and unacceptable", and it is an "ever-worsening humanitarian crisis".From this CBC article.

A 15 year old teen, Cody Webb, spent 12 days in juvenile detention, because of a mixup caused by the earlier than usual change in day light savings time. Comments and discussion on Slashdot.

While viewing CVS messages on Drupal's web site, I noticed that my name is up there.This is the first time I noticed my name being on the list. I am not sure if this means "badge of honor" or "addiction and obsession".

A new GPL licensed transactional engine for MySQL is now available.

It is called PrimeBase XT (pbxt). It provides all the benefits of transactional engines such as InnoDB. This includes referential integrity (RI) and multiversion concurrency control (MVCC).

The benchmarks are good for this engine.

Traditionally web hosting was done on shared hosts.

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Drupal has a module called watchdog that logs all messages to a database table. The module is currently mandatory, and hence writing to the table cannot be easily removed without hacking core. This can be a problem on sites with heavy traffic where the database is loaded with more logging unecessarily.

A few weeks ago, I was contacted by someone who got scammed. He was conned out of $750 already, and I advised him not to send any more money.The fact that he got scammed made me realize that this scam works, and that is why we all get so many version of it. It also made me sad for the poor sap who got swindled out of his money.However, the following email made my day.

Here is another bizarre thing that received by email:

Subject: Sales manager job in reputed hotel in Saudi ArabiaI am M R from hyderabad, India. I am looking for the post ofhotel sales manager in reputed hotels group. can you please help me out.If yes, Please revert back on my email ID.Thanks & Regards,M RHYderabad,India.

I am not a recruiter, nor do I reside in Saudi Arabia. Perhaps it is because of the (now largely obsolete) Saudi ISP list that is on this site.

Crayfish are fresh water crustacean that look like a tiny lobster, to which they are closely related. Out of 250 species in the South-East United States, the species Procambarus clarkii, known as Louisiana red swamp crayfish, is the most well known.In places like Louisiana it is farmed commercially and consumed in various dishes.

The 2007 OSCMS Summit has started today and goes on till tomorrow, with a followup adjunct event on Saturday. I had planned to attend, but due to illness, I had to cancel my plans. Even the ticket is non-refundable. Enjoy everyone, and looking forward to material from the conference.