I’m not as specialist as other people with bicycles, but at least I have the will to pick it up and go drive for hours. So, on Friday I woke up and decided to go for a 2 day drive down the river Main (in Germany) and visit most of the towns I pass. I made pictures which can be found on following URLs: Visiting Würzburg River Main (part 1) Visiting Gemünden and Lohr am Main

We knew an article was in the making about how MySQL AB, the company, is working. Today we got the link to it, read it here. Victoria and Domas are the opening stars, but the hero of the day is our support overall leader Tom Basil! I didn’t like the fact that only Cupertino in California was mentioned as being our headquarters. MySQL is Swedish/Finnish, European. Let us not forget and be proud of that, and mention it!

The Apple Wireless keyboard is really good looking, and is OK to type with. Though, if you are like me a bit hairy and you lose quite some hair, it’s looks like your keyboard is getting more hairy than the owner! (Ok, lets not forget all the food rests sticking under it.) Today I decided I had to clean it. It’s not nice if people come over and they look at your keyboard because it’s really nice looking, and they find actually a garbage bin.

Couple days ago Pearl Jam released there new single Life Wasted video under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5. This means you can freely redistribute it under the conditions mentioned here. If you want to download it you can still check it out on Google Video till 24th of May. I made a copy of it of course, and making it available on my depot. Maybe I should make a website of it stating the license, but I do hope I following the license like that!

I’ll be giving a talk about MySQL Cluster at FrOSCon 2006, http://www.froscon.de, on Saturday 24th of June. It’s going to be an Introduction focusing on MySQL 5.0 and new features in 5.1. MySQL AB has 3 talks there. My colleague Lenz will do the other two about Administrating MySQL and the MySQL Business Model. Here is the schedule: http://programm.froscon.de/.