{"id":2283,"date":"2010-04-04T07:20:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T11:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2010-04-04T09:09:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T13:09:21","slug":"welcome-to-the-internets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2283","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the internets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2284\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2284\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/deadly_pre_monition-150x91.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Obviously, Twin Peaks inspired\" width=\"150\" height=\"91\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2284\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/deadly_pre_monition-150x91.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/deadly_pre_monition-300x182.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/deadly_pre_monition.jpg 392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethingawful.com\/d\/news\/deadly-premonition-review.php?page=1\">Something Awful&#8217;s &#8216;Deadly Premonition&#8217; review<\/a> the other day: many other gaming review sites have called this game &#8216;horrible&#8217; to &#8216;outrageously bad&#8217; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/games\/platforms\/xbox360\/deadlypremonition?q=Deadly%20Premonition\">see Metacritic<\/a>). Obviously, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadlypremonition.com\/\">makers of the game<\/a> (age check required) were Twin Peaks fans, as some of the reviewers noted, as it features twins, absurd story lines and an FBI agent. Also, if you&#8217;re a Twin Peaks fan, you&#8217;ll recognize the photo in the screenshot above (if not, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/barneybritton\/3021536892\/\">here ya go<\/a>). Too bad the game is only released for the XBOX 360 platform.<\/p>\n<p><p>I&#8217;ve only slightly followed the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NoSQL\">NoSQL movement<\/a> and mostly because it was linked to from one of the mails I get from the Postgres mailinglist. I&#8217;m not certain how people can call databases &#8216;non-scalable&#8217; when most serious databases (including MySQL, I guess) have been around for ages. If you can&#8217;t get the right performance out of a database, you probably have to rethink your indexing strategy and if you&#8217;re too lazy to do that, you&#8217;ll probably end up at in the NoSQL corner. But seriously, this in fact doesn&#8217;t mean that SQL servers are becoming outdated and I don&#8217;t think they will just yet.\n<\/p>\n<p>I also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2010\/04\/03\/governor-general.html\">read that the PM is looking to replace<\/a> the current governor-general, Michaelle Jean (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gg.ca\/index.aspx\">the official site<\/a>). I think she was appointed by Paul Martin in 2005: I was certain that the GG was there for life (or until they resign\/retire). From all the suggestions in that CBC article, I find only William Shatner a compelling candidate<sup>1<\/sup>. The other ones, not so much.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"reference\">\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> Uh: on preview maybe not&#8230;\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read Something Awful&#8217;s &#8216;Deadly Premonition&#8217; review the other day: many other gaming review sites have called this game &#8216;horrible&#8217; to &#8216;outrageously bad&#8217; (see Metacritic). Obviously, the makers of the game (age check required) were Twin Peaks fans, as some &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2283\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[162,419,418],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}