Find the hour to watch this video. They get everything really, really right. Plus, it looks to integrate well with everything. I look forward to using Google Wave for all my personal communication, as well as using a private install of Google Wave at IBM for all my business communication.

The two javascript functions above are very useful. The first one executes something after a set delay, and the second executes something at regular intervals. The syntax is very similar.

Unfortunately, they weren’t working for me earlier. It turns out I wasn’t fully-qualifying them. Specifically, I was calling setTimeout() rather than window.setTimeout(). The latter works.

Most examples use the abbreviated form, which consistently doesn’t work for me.

Looks like the original cofounder of MySQL Inc, Monty Widenius, is forking MySQL. He’s going to try to merge with all the other forks, but I suspect that Oracle will not be interested in merging something they just bought with this particular fork. Especially since it will not support InnoDB, an alternate MySQL engine bought by Oracle some time before they bought regular MySQL.