I consider myself a fairly clever person.  Perhaps even notably intelligent.  This does not mean I do not make mistakes.  If anything, my mistakes tend to be far greater in scope due to my intelligence.  The redeeming factor is that I can consistently recover from these mistakes and learn from the experience.  Unfortunately, there are cases where in my attempt to reverse my fortune I forget the lesson of my first error and create a second, far grander mistake.  Monday was the rare instance where I did that twice in a row.  A few hundred of you might have noticed.

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I only tried to extort Baklava from Les because there isn’t a population of Greeks where I live and the store bought stuff just doesn’t cut it.  Promise.

This certainly puts my Monday in perspective, which I thought was bad, and now I realize was a wonderful day.

Thats it!  Rick needs to change the MySQL password.  The positive side of this is that I will have this post to make me feel better when I do something stupid of my own.  Commence with the Paul is so stupid jokes… I will start…

Paul is so stupid, he thought Taco Bell was a Mexican Phone company!

Paul is so stupid, he ordered his sushi well done!

The sickening part is… you were my hero for all those releases of EE… now I know the true Paul.

I am going to go cry myself to sleep now.

I appreciate the honesty.  Everyone screws up.  Not every company has the cahones to admit it.

Does this mean we get to see the commerce module a bit early for our troubles? 

[ducks as soggy tomatoes are thrown…]

Ah, the applied shit-happens principle. Well, everything’s working again.

By the way, can I somehow check when my download area access expires? I only have “Purchase History” history date, do I simply manually add the years to that date?

Nevermind, I found https://secure.pmachine.com/index.php?ACT=Renewals.

I knew something was up Monday when the sky turned red and black clouds began forming near Paul’s house.* I guess all that thunder and lightning was just Paul being hard on himself again . . .  hey. . .  someones got to do it. ;~D

Thanks for sharing the ‘real-life’ adventures of a CTO with us Paul.

*Paul and I are based in the same City.

So I thought you were a digital extra-terrestrial (since the DevBlog code attack) but you’re so human, certainly unique though .  Great to have you in World Cup shape at the arrival.

Boy am I glad, I decided to wait before paying. I got multiple notices, and I remember thinking, “Wow I could have swore I paid these for a couple years in advance…”  Then I thought maybe it was one of those illusive dream tasks; you know when you’ve dreamed you’ve completed items on your to-do list, but in actuality you haven’t. But now when I check my accounts, I can see that yes indeed, I did pay in advance (I wasn’t dreaming, yippie); and can rest in comfort that Paul occasionally makes silly mistakes as well.

And that friends is precisely why one should use InnoDB with important data in MySQL.  Contrary to what D.A.R.E tells youth, sometimes ACID can be your friend.  And contrary to what the MyISAM Coalition says, InnoDB is not a magnitude slower than MyISAM.