Mike’s ramblings

Firefox wanted to get the world record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours today with the release of Firefox 3.0. It would have been a quite good marketing ploy, but they kind of ruined it for some people because they didn’t communicate at what time they would publish Firefox 3.0. Europeans, Asians and everyone else east of the US just assumed that it would start on their July 17. On the SpreadFirefox forums there are lots of angry voices, even some that say they will download it this weekend instead of today.

Firefox will still get the Guinness World Record, because they’re the first to “try”. If you still want to download Firefox 3 today (like me :D) you can do so starting 10 AM PDT here.

Today I stumbled across this photo on Panoramio and somehow I was flabbergasted. Not because it is a pretty picture, which it is, but because one can clearly see on the Google Map, that the mark where the photo was supposed to be taken is accurate down to the meter.

When I saw that page I could envision a future in which we just sit at home and visit places by clicking on a Google Map and it shows us a complete tour with videos and photos of everything. Admittedly not the most interesting thing from a social standpoint, but it shows us how far technology has progressed.

Does this page mean anything to you or does it leave you untouched?

At the recent MySQL Conference & Expo there was a very interesting panel called “Scaling MySQL - Up or Out?” where people from some of the internet’s top sites gave quite a good insight into their setup of MySQL and sometimes also some nice tidbits about their storage and web server setup. Sheeri Cabral made a video that is really worth watching and that I’ve uploaded to Google Video. (The original can be found here.)

The raw numbers are below the fold and courtesy of Keith Murphy, Venu Anuganti and Ronald Bradford.

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