For more than two weeks I was having a problem on my MacBook Air. At one point I magically fixed it going in Safe Boot (holding shift between boot sound and Apple logo), but I couldn’t pin-point the problem. Lucky I was again sleepless tonight, and I fixed it! What was the problem? I created a second account last month to separate work stuff on a FileVaulted home directory, worked great.

I’ll be attending and speaking at the T-DOSE 2008 conference in Eindhoven (NL). In 2006 I talked about MySQL Cluster; this year I’ll be talking about Monitoring MySQL. I did it a few weeks ago on the Nagios Conference in Nurmberg (DE) and will continue on that, probably giving more details and examples. Of course, I’ll be showing off our MySQL Enterprise Monitor! The conference spans 2 days, 25⁄26 October, and I’ll be hanging around!

It seems so. None of the DNS servers of Gandi.net are responding, so my 3 domains are currently gone! That’s HA folks! Now it’s really a DNS problem! Update 17:24 CEST: and they’re back!

Yesterday my sister and I set off for Stratford-upon-Avon, flying from Brussels to Birmingham and taken the train south from there. It was a well planned trip, no excitements a long the way, until we arrived and had a great time! Stratford-upon-Avon is where William Shakespeare was born, wrote splendid plays and poem, and died. It’s a small town with a huge history and lots of tourist now just like back then, I’m sure!

Today I got fed up with the Google Mail Notifier for Mac. Google is distributing a DMG package with only an install.sh script which opens again the website were you can download.. that same package! Well, today I started out making my own notifier. I’ll put it online when it is a bit mature. Silly stuff really. Now I need to have the Keychain working and making sure it gets in the status bar.