I think I could use a little help from this article: Desktop Zen – Reducing Visual Clutter on your Desktop. Every now and then I clear it all up, but this article advocates wiping your desktop completely clean and leaving it that way! Woah! Crazy talk! I think I might just give it a shot though…
Monthly Archives: April 2006
mysqlreport and other useful tools
A colleague pointed me at the Hack MySQL site which has a couple of nice tools available.
- mysqlreport which can give a nice snapshop of how mysql is performing
- mysqlsla which will analyse your query logs to tell the frequency of each query, its execution time and an EXPLAIN for each query too.
Interesting site anyway, I’ll stay tuned to its RSS!
Kleptonemania
I’ve had The Kleptones 24 Hours and Night at the Hip-Hopera albums on my iPod for the past few weeks, and I keep coming back to them and hearing something new. Whatever you call it, bastard-pop, mashups, remixing, whatever – The Kleptones do it very well.
Listening to 24-Hours is the aural equivalent of watching Spaced. I spent ages puzzling over a snatch of a song on the album, eventually reaching the conclusion it was a cover of The Beatles “In My Life”. I might be wrong though – Wikipedia has a breakdown of the songs in 24 Hours and A Night at the Hip Hopera which has put me out of my misery a little, but doesn’t detail the song I thought I heard 🙁
Still, it is chock full of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off samples, which makes me happy.