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Travel blog – Day 7
No sign of bugs this morning and throughout the day. My “attack” on them yesterday seems to have paid off. Let’s see tomorrow. The heavy metal band across the street was playing into the early hours of the morning. As a result, I didn’t get much sleep 🙂 I was soooo tempted to go to…
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Travel blog – Day 6
(this was supposed to be a boring driving day… little I knew 🙂 After yesterday’s problems with Julio, the car, the night ended quiet with lots of book-related writing. In the morning, the bedbugs were back 🙁 This time I took more drastic action. I threw away all clothes that might had been exposed to…
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1TB sort done in 68 seconds by Google
This 3 times faster than the previous known record. For those who don’t know, Jim Gray et al established a series of tests, including the 1TB sort, in order to give database vendors a playground for honest comparisons. The results are maintained online. Here are the two related papers: “A Measure of Transaction Processing”. Note…
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Travel blog – Day 5
I think I slept for 11 hours. The combination of bugs the night before (I think I only slept for 3 hours or so), an exhausting day 4, and a nice bed resulted in a lot of sleep. Didn’t manage to write as much as I wanted though 🙁 The “bedbug” problem from yesterday did…
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Travel blog – Day 4
The day started very early. I couldn’t sleep all night because of blood-thirsty bugs. Originally I thought it was mosquitoes. Even though I was trying to ignore them, their bites kept waking me up. Then, at around 6am it occurred to me… what if these were not mosquito bites, especially since I could feel some…
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Travel blog – Day 3
Another great day, different from yesterday. I woke up feeling that I needed more sleep. The hotel experience was not good, even though the lady-owner was very sweet, telling me how much she liked Greece and that she wanted to visit one day. Well, I think she did anyway, given the state of my Spanish…
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Travel blog – Day 2
After a wonderful first evening in Valladolid, I returned to the hotel, taking some photos on the way (this is a view of my hotel’s interior). I worked on that Web book for a while. I couldn’t sleep… the travel, still on Pacific Standard Time I guess, the unfamiliar sounds. Then, at 12.30am, a…
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Travel blog – Day 1
As you can probably imagine, this blog will be full of travel-related entries for the next couple of weeks. I may still post the odd technology-related one though. You’ve been warned 🙂 Arrived in Cancun around 6.30pm and got my rental Fiat. I’ve already had my first “adventure” (due to my stupidity really). I had…
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Good comments about our coffee-related endeavors
Jay has some good feedback on our “How to GET a Cup of Coffee” article. Thanks Jay! We are monitoring the Web for any feedback that we can use for our upcoming book on the same topic. We encourage everyone to either blog their thoughts on Web-based application integration or just contact us directly.
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Adventure ahead: I am off to explore the Maya civilization
Just booked my flight for a 2 1/2 week trip to explore the Maya civilization. I am flying to Cancun (no, I am not going to stay to any of the holiday resorts). I am going to immediately hit the road and travel around the Yucat n peninsula. The rough plan includes Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala.…