November 16th '11 18:22

It sure impresses me how long I can leave this thing alone for and still have it be working when I come back. I just went through the (oddly trivial) process of switching from master/slave replication to synchronous for the backend of this site, and it was trivial. Now to fix up the image-importer thingy and then, you know, write stuff ever.

By the by, if you have more data than will fit in a single RDBMS and you're not looking at Google's BigQuery right now, you really should be. It is amazingly hot shit.