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The City of Lost Angels

chl — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 05:46:11 +0000

My most excellent friend Joe Stump has just published a great blog post about the cities he’s lived in. Speifically San Francisco Boulder Portland Seattle I think on most days I’m just as much of a tech nerd as he is, but during the entire time he’s talking about in his post (and, actually, considerably [...]

Sweet December Coming Soon

chl — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 02:33:23 +0000

Been busy. Traveling mostly. My life really did resemble Up in the Air for a few months there. But I’m back, and mostly unscathed. Two weeks in NY and Nashville in November around Thanksgiving should do it for airports and me for 2010. As I get older years seem to go by a lot faster [...]

I’m addicted to data

chl — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 08:28:18 +0000

If there’s one thing I’ve realized very quickly on this trip to Dublin, it’s that I’m completely addicted to having a data connection basically all the time. Must. Find. Vodafone. Store…

The War on Drugs

chl — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:13:05 +0000

Like many of my peers, I believe that the so-called “War on Drugs” that the United States along with many other countries is engaged in, is ridiculous. It has produced no tangible results after decades of enforcement and trillions of dollars spent. Yet it continues, despite the fact that other approaches have been demonstrated to [...]

Oracle’s MySQL

chl — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 06:14:36 +0000

I suppose this shouldn’t have come as a surprise to me. Inevitable really. But all the same, it was a bit of a shock to see it for the first time this evening… Oh the times they are a changin’!

MongoDB 1.4.0 for CentOS 5

chl — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:44:29 +0000

I know I haven’t posted anything in forever. I mean well! I’m working on an article outlining an introduction to encryption with GPG, as well as my own thoughts about all the NoSQL hoopla currently going on. But for now, I’ve built RPM packages for MongoDB 1.4.0 for CentOS 5 systems to my Yum repository. [...]

MongoDB 1.2.2 for CentOS 5

chl — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:59:31 +0000

I’ve built RPM packages for MongoDB 1.2.2 that are native to RHEL5 / CentOS5 systems. They’re in my Yum repository now. Note that I’ve also built newer packages for the Boost libraries because Mongo likes newer versions than the ones bundled with the distro. Packages are available for i386 as well as x86_64, and there [...]

What I hope I take away from 2009

chl — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:19:33 +0000

It’s simple, and I think best expressed by this graphic (my favorite from 2009).

MongoDB Packages for CentOS 5

chl — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:18:26 +0000

Hi all. If you’re one of the (approximately nine) people who read this blog, sorry for the absence. Been a little busy for the last few weeks. One of the things I’ve been busy with is playing around with is MongoDB which I think is really cool. I don’t have time to write up anything [...]

iPhone vs. Droid

chl — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:48:40 +0000

This is genius (disclaimer: planning on getting the Droid fairly soon…)