MySQL

I haven't blogged for a couple of weeks for 2 reasons:

1. I've been on holiday
2. The incompetence of my ex-ISP (Virgin Media) meant that I was cut off when all I wanted was a MAC code to change ISPs!

It seems Virgin Media are not too worried that I work for some of the UKs biggest shelf computer magazines.  After 3 and a half hours on the phone being told lies I really felt like detroying them publically.  Instead a nice guy from Ofcom managed to get my MAC code within 20 minutes.  It still left me without an ISP for a while but at least I wasn't using their crappy service anymore.  If anyone does read this I suggest they never even think of using Virgin Media as an ADSL provider.

As a side note I would like to thank the guys at Zen, they really tried hard to help sort out the mess Virgin Media left behind, way beyond the call of duty.  I am very happy to have them as my main ISP now.

So here is a summary of stuff that has been happening lately:

• I have real proof that Virgin Media's ADSL divison really suck see here
• I had a really wet time in Wales, but still good to see my wife's family again
• I resigned from Dennis Publishing on Monday, my last working day will be the 26th September
• I have a new job working as a MySQL Support Engineer for Sun Microsystems starting 29th September (yay!)
• ndb_watch 0.7 is running later than expected because I keep adding new features