Optimizing Oracle Performance

Optimizing Oracle Performance. By Cary Millsap, O’Reilly 2003. Page count: about 375 pages with appendices. (Here’s a link to the publisher’s site.)

This is easily one of the best books I’ve ever read on performance optimization. I’ve just finished reading [...]

Casio goes retro.

Black or Blue.

Alas, too late: sold out.

Still, fun to look....

[via Pulp]

Nearly one foot long (11-7/8" for the precisionists among us)

on each side.

 

1"-wide sticky strip releases without damage.

80-sheet pad.

$9.95.

I noticed  a few days ago that if I lift Apple's new Magic Mouse off the surface it rests on and hold it in the air, I can still scroll up and down on a page or move backward or forward between pages in Camino (or Safari).

So near and yet' [...]

"Can also be used in a pool, jacuzzi or hot tub."

256MB; 4 AAA batteries = 15 hours play.

5"Ø x 3.5"H.

$250.