Archive for December, 2005

Logging SQL queries

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

A note to myself about how to log SQL queries when using PostgreSQL. In postgresql.conf set the following parameters:
log_statement = true
syslog = 2
syslog_facility = ‘LOCAL0′
syslog_ident = ‘postgres’

The database will need to be restarted in order for the changes to have any effect. To view the SQL queries that are being executed, log in as root […]

Music Google style

Friday, December 16th, 2005

Now Google is doing music. For example, type “Madonna” or “Daddy Yankee” into Google and you back a link to more information about the artist.
What’s really cool is that if you browse an album Google provides links to sites with the lyrics of the songs. I wonder how long it will be before Google starts […]

Microsoft works with Mozilla

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Microsoft’s RSS team has just announced that they have adopted the icon Firefox uses to represent the presence of an RSS feed. It will be incorporated into IE7. According to the announcement Microsoft “worked with the Mozilla team to encourage consistency between browsers”. Yet more kudos to Microsoft. Perhaps the sleeping giant really has […]

Imagine

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

25 years ago today John Lennon was shot dead outside of his apartment in New York.