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Speaking at Percona University Sept 12th 18 Aug 2013 | 06:59 pm
I’ll be joining Percona for a free day of MySQL education and insight at their upcoming Percona University Washington DC event on September 12th. My topic is accessing MySQL from Google’s Go programmi...
Speaking at Strata NYC: Making Big Data Small 18 Aug 2013 | 06:47 pm
I’m off to my first Strata conference, and I’m speaking! I’ve always wanted to attend Strata. (OSCON too, but I haven’t yet made it there.) My session will be about ways to make big data small, in bo...
Using encryption? You’re suspicious 1 Aug 2013 | 04:58 pm
Yesterday more details on the NSA’s secret and illegal monitoring activities were revealed. (Yes, the NSA revealed some things themselves, but as far as I can tell, that was only a conciliatory effort...
Email snooping is a small fraction of the story 18 Jul 2013 | 06:02 am
I wrote previously about why privacy and security require open-source, inspectable hardware and software to run on, and software that makes encryption the default so everyone uses it. My example appli...
Ultimate notebook and journal face-off 10 Jul 2013 | 09:18 am
If you’re like me, you spend so much time typing on a computer that a good notebook or journal is one of life’s finer pleasures. I’ve kept a diary of my personal life for close to 30 years now, and I ...
Privacy is impossible unless it’s the default 7 Jul 2013 | 12:39 am
This is a follow-up to my last post, in which I asserted that without free software and hardware, privacy is impossible. Suppose we have trustworthy, free hardware and software. What else is needed to...
Without free software and hardware, privacy is impossible 6 Jul 2013 | 05:17 am
The recent revelations about the NSA’s wide-ranging surveillance of Americans and non-Americans alike has spurred a lot of outcry. Of course, some people are crying for legal solutions, but there’s ab...
My recipe for more enjoyable presentations 2 Jul 2013 | 06:59 pm
Since I started making my presentations more beautiful, people have often asked me my secret. It’s not a secret, and it’s really quite simple to do. First, realize that it’s not about you. It’s about...
Eliminating duplicate users in MySQL 26 Jun 2013 | 10:49 pm
This is hypothetical. What would happen if I did the following? I’m tossing this out there for people to think about because I’ve always thought that MySQL’s authentication model is a nuisance: MyS...
Quantifying Abnormal Behavior in System Metrics 26 Jun 2013 | 12:56 am
I’ve posted slides for my Velocity talk on VividCortex’s blog. The talk explained how we use exponentially weighted moving statistics to generate a meta-metric of abnormality for the time-series metri...
