Via The Globe and Mail : Making computer games more real, report on Condition30 a Van City startup which is try to crack the 'puter games market with smart rather than brute force. Lead by a trio of which 2 are know to me : Illiad, of userFriendly.org fame and the bass player for Can Rock band The Payolas.
The Economist.com | Coffee-houses is a lively piece detail the history of how coffee-houses' functioned as centers of scientific, literary, business exchange, and political discussion/dissent. Much of this I knew ( Lloyd 's , the Royal Society, the literary role it still serves today), but interesting anyway. Altogether the article general dismisses the internet's impact along such lines, I would still hold out hope for a similar contribution to society, whether from online science journals, wiki's or blogs. I would also note that it took 100 years for Lloyd coffee house to become the Society of Lloyd's, better known as Lloyd's of London. Please allow us a few more years to change the social discourse, remake the economy and participate in overthrowing a government or two.
Dev Shed - Using Transactions In MySQL (Part 1) - Moving Up has the skinny on the why, what, and how of Doing the Begin/Commit/Rollback dance with MySql, answering every CIO's question : is it ready for the big time?
As a related tidbit (or timbit? ) via Slashdork : Java DBMS functions for MySQL
A useful reminder of what we sure and should not be doing : notestips.com :: Securing Your Web Database
