WombatNationSpeech Applications, Soccer, Hacking, Intellectual Property, and Incinerating ToiletsSalt Flats and the Death Road in Bolivia- August 10, 2008 Some of wife&8217;s and my greatest memories (and stories) come from our travels in Bolivia. Today&8217;s NY Times has a really good article that focuses mostly on the salt flats near Uyuni and &8220;The Death Road&8221; from La Paz to Coroico. The Salar de Uyuni is so bizarre that I have always found it difficult to ...http://www.wombatnation.com/2008/08/salt-flats-and-the-death-road-in-bolivia EBay & Google MySQL Patches and Drizzle- August 5, 2008 This year I attended presentations by the EBay engineering team at the MySQL Conference and JavaOne in which they talked about some very interesting patches that had made to MySQL Server. I lamented the fact that they hadn&8217;t open sourced it yet or contributed all the patches back to MySQL. Google has also announced some ...http://www.wombatnation.com/2008/08/ebay-google-mysql-patches-and-drizzle |