Weblog: Morgan DelagrangeIt seemed like a good idea at the time...Gamefly- October 22, 2003 I got an offer to try Gamefly free for 21 days, so I've been giving it a look. I must say, it's pretty convenient and economical. The cost is $21.95 per month, which is pretty low considering that most games retail for $40-$50. The only two drawback are a) there is no manual (only controller instructions), and b) they don't carry PC games. Surprisingly, they DO carry GBA games. So far I've rented four games, and I'm still working on two of them. Here are my capsule reviews. BloodRayne..http://radio.weblogs.com/0116794/2003/10/22.html#a17 Categories added- October 21, 2003 I finally added categories to my 'blog. My entries have actually been categorized for a while, but there were no links to them on the page. Now there's a "Code" category for programming-related stuff and a "Fun" category for the, well, fun stuff. And there will still be the homepage feed, which will contain all entries including those that don't fit into the other two categories (like this one). Feel free to subscribe to the "Code" or "Fun" feeds if this feed is too noisy for you. You...http://radio.weblogs.com/0116794/2003/10/21.html#a16 Dipping into Axion- October 21, 2003 I did some Axion debugging this week. Rod and I discovered that only SQL inserts are utilizing indices. Deletes and updates are performing table scans every time. Today I checked in a fix for simple delete statements, which produced a significant boost. A series of SQL deletes which took 638 seconds to execute before now takes less than 4 seconds. We're working on more complete index support for updates and deletes, so if you use Axion you may want to keep an eye on the repository activity.http://radio.weblogs.com/0116794/2003/10/21.html#a15 |