{"id":2893,"date":"2014-04-09T06:40:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T11:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2014-04-09T06:40:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T11:40:53","slug":"avatar-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2014\/04\/09\/avatar-update","title":{"rendered":"Avatar update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just updated my Twitter avatar to a caricature, created entirely on an iPad, in about five minutes, at the Percona Live Santa Clara expo hall, at the MariaDB\/SkySQL booth. It was done by <a href=\"http:\/\/eventtoons.com\/recent-events\/artist\/doug-shannon\">Doug Shannon<\/a>, the owner of EventToons. I\u2019ve seen him before at the SkySQL booths, but never did get a chance to get a caricature done by him. Kinda glad that I just got one. Let\u2019s see how this works and for how long this lasts.<\/p>\n<p><center><a title=\"Colin by Colin Charles, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/13736032085\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3739\/13736032085_906c578924.jpg?resize=333%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Colin\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Avatar%20update&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2014%2F04%2F09%2Favatar-update&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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These are notes from the panel on the SkySQL Reference Architecture, led by Kaj Arno and Ivan Zoratti. The notes are raw (read their FAQ for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;MariaDB&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2640,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/01\/26\/skysql-solutions-day-fosdem-mysql-activity","url_meta":{"origin":2893,"position":1},"title":"SkySQL Solutions Day, FOSDEM MySQL activity","date":"26\/1\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"February is turning out to be a busy month. I'll be giving a talk about MariaDB at the SkySQL Solutions Day in Hamburg, alongside Sergei Golubchik. This happens February 1 2013. I'll also be in Brussels for FOSDEM and presenting at the MySQL & Friends devroom. 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