Well, this is certainly interesting. It looks like my stupid-intensive MySQL Query is using waaaaaaay too much processor to return some quick figures. In addition to that, it seems that this same query is making the processor work so hard that it’s running at over 130% utilization.

Apache, a wonderful bit of software, can be configured to collect and record all sorts of wonderful information. But what can we do with it? Well … why not shove it into a MySQL table and massage it for reporting purposes? I’ll even show you how.

In the three years that Reiko and I have lived together in Japan, we’ve moved a total of 4 times. This is an insane number to be sure, but it’s also something that will likely not change until we buy our home some time in the next five to seven years. Unfortunately, when work or family demands that we move, we have little choice but to listen.

No, I haven’t disappeared from the internet completely. Hopefully NTT and Yahoo!BB will cooperate long enough to grant my home with an internet connection. Until then, I’ll have to rely on a semi-spotty connection from the neighbor’s house. Once I’m back online (at home), I’ll be sure to write a bunch of updates.

Chrome wants to be helpful by translating a page from Japanese to English. Okay. What I find interesting isn’t so much the fact that Chrome is asking if I want to have the site translated; it’s that Chrome isn’t asking if I want to use an English Google site instead.

This marks the 900th post on j2fi.net and, rather than do something predictable like look back at some of the more popular posts or anything like that, I thought it would be more interesting to share my experiences on upgrading a group of WordPress 2.9.x sites to a single WordPress 3.0 site.

It’s half a world away. Billions of marine creatures have died. The oil well is still gushing anywhere between 30,000 and 50,000 barrels of crude a day depending on what newspaper you read. Entire ecosystems have been wiped out and will take decades or more to recover, if recovery is at all possible.

There have been a number of great authors who shaped my view of the universe, but very few have come close to providing the razor sharp wit and clarity we’ve often enjoyed from the words of Samuel Clemens, otherwise known as Mark Twain.

Kenji and I have debated a great many things and, more often than not, we can only agree to disagree. However, it seems that one of my predictions from last year has actually come to pass!

Question for you: how many (legitimate) Oxford dictionaries and thesauruses are in the App Store? Ten? Fifteen? Keep going … it’s a pretty big number. Question Number Two: just how many English dictionaries and thesauruses does Oxford need to put in the App Store?

The World Cup has been slowly building to a fever pitch over the last six months and it seems the games going on in South Africa are catching more eyeballs than the Vancouver Olympics could have ever hoped for. So, naturally, Twitter’s down.

Since getting my hands on an iPod Touch a few months back, I’ve been compelled to compare my screen layouts with everyone around me … and I’ve come to a conclusion: I’m not trying hard enough!

To celebrate the day Reiko and I officially find a new home in Chiba, I’ve redesigned the site from the ground up! Although still dependent on WordPress, it’s now 23% slimmer in terms of bandwidth, and the JavaScript isn’t a mess anymore.