The greatness that is Barack Obama

I've just watched Barack Obama's 30 minute infomercial on YouTube.com.

He is a unique individual, and someone like him could only have emerged in the US.

Not anywhere else on Earth could the son of a Kenyan man and a Kansas woman reach such great heights.

The US truly defines opportunity, that if you work hard and dedicate yourself to something you will achieve it, sometimes even against overwhelming odds.

Barack Obama defeated Hilary Clinton in the Democrat primaries when everyone thought she would be the front runner.

From the looks of it, it looks like Barack Obama will now defeat John McCain.

Even though I am not American, I am excited by this, it shows that the US can be a moral leader for the world again, instead of the land of Bush and the "24" brigade.

Cheers to Barack Obama!

MySQL Community Edition vs MS SQL 2k5 Express

I'll be doing a weekly article on why you should use MySQL when you want to use MS SQL 2k5 Express.

Size Limit

MySQL (UNLIMITED) > MS SQL 2k5 Express (4GB)

The Fuckers in some companies

I heard this on the grapvine a couple of day ago.

John Galt Games Malaysia has officially shutdown.

For the most dumb ass reasons ever.

I point to this thread:-

http://igda.org/Forums/showthread.php?threadid=33676

If you're not going to read the forum thread, I'll sum it up for you.

Bad management and bad planning on the US management side, they are the ones who should be let go off, not the employees here.

Hell, they should be sued for negligence and incompetence.

Assfucks.

Uncomfortable with the direction of the company

I am uncomfortable with the direction of the company.

We have too many abstraction layers in our upcoming product.

And as we all know abstraction layers are bad!

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000026.html

If you have too many.

If the number one selling point of your product is graphics, then you better write your own graphics engine.

My company is not following that rule, hence much worrying on my part.

Apparent Speed vs. Real Speed

Fact:

Safari and Chrome ARE slower at loading images.

Fact:

They LOOK like they are faster.

Reason:

They show incremental loading of the images, firefox, ie and opera just load the whole and shows it.

Same reason why GIFs look like they load faster when JPEGs are actually faster.

Maybe the other browsers should have this mode as an option for people who prefer it.