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Over the last two days, I’ve deleted about a dozen comments from the MySQL Manual — and received emails from about a dozen friends — all asking the same question: “When will 5.0.26 and/or 5.1.12 be released?”

Here’s how I answer the emails: “Even if I knew for sure… I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you“.

If you’re looking for a sure source of insider info, maybe you need to look into actually being on the inside. Get yourself one of those jobs, and you’ll know what I do - maybe even more.

All I can say is that 5.0.26 will very definitely happen Real Soon Now™, and 5.1.12 shouldn’t be far behind.

In the meantime… keep watching those mirrors.

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I’ve just uploaded some more pictures to the Gallery. I’ve taken these over the last three or four weeks at the hotel where I’ve been staying (The Bedrooms on Sukhumvit 77 Soi On-Nut) and its immediate environs. This is a really nice place, and if you’re looking for accomodation for the medium to long term, I highly recommend it.

Here’s a direct link that opens in a new window, and without the inline frame, because I made the reductions too … well, not quite reduced enough to fit in the frameset very well.

The photo on the right is Wat Tai, just down the street from here, as seen from a bridge over Soi On-Nut.

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If you’re like me (and, gosh, I know that I am!), then you’ve probably been keeping CNN or BBCWorld bleating in the background waiting for them to dole out the latest bits on the latest member of the Nuclear Club. Fortunately — thanks to a tip from my good friend The Evil System Administrator — I’ve been reminded that there are some truly great minds out there, and one of them has come up with an elegant Endlösung that requires only a coffee can and a photo of Angelina Jolie. Now, that’s minimalist.

The good news: The North Koreans are rank amateurs. I’m sure we can all sleep easier now.

The bad news: I’ve only an empty coffee jar, and the Kill Bill and Kill Bill 2 DVD cases (thanks, Morgan!) with some stills of Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu on the back.

While I happen to think that Lucy makes Angelina look like Goat Chow, I doubt the effect would be the same.

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Ross McFarland recently posted to the Cluster mailing list about a Perl binding that he’s been working on for the NDB API. Ross says that it’s just a proof of concept, and at this point nowhere near complete, but is inviting folks to download it and take it for a spin. I’m not a Perl hacker myself, but I’d be interested in hearing your reaction or if you’re doing something interesting with this.

Of course, if you’re working on your own port of the NDB API to some other language - say, PHP, Python, or (heh) even JavaScript - I’d love to hear about it.

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