Did a talk at the Denver LAMP meetup on MySQL performance and scalability. Great group, very sharp.

Attended the CSIA in Denver show, it was very good. Met many friends, some new connections

Seeing a lot of interest in Amazon's EC2 cloud, very flexible and lots of potential.

Been getting up very early, my daughter is a figure skater and skates before school... Nice time to get some work done and watch her too.

Rode the bike yesterday, beautiful weather in CO.

Getting a lot of interest in database sharding, many companies are interested in how to improve performance.

Getting going with Amazon EC2 and RightScale, its a very attractive environment

Hit the MySQL show last week, tons of activity. Oracle acquisition of Sun is the buzz...

Doing more interesting work with Ruby, the more I use it the more I like it

Building a startup company