| Re: How did you get here?
Since I have the wacko story, I should post it here for posterity....
I was running performance tests on one of the many database servers at the web hosting company my company uses, trying to find out why our application was running so slow on two out of nearly 100 sites we have set up there. My perf tool basically told me the name of the databases on the server, and showed in a monitor how often they were getting hit at a standard sampling rate. I found several candidate databases that seemed to be really pounding the servers I was having problems on. On the first server, it was clearly a site called "tampacampushookup.com" a hilarious site that makes it clear that if you want to go to a school with lots of "action" (and probably visits from the "Girls Gone Wild" crew), you should go to U Florida, Tampa... Its a hoot: look it up.
On the other server there were a bunch of candidates. A car parts site, big local real estate site, and then there was this one that seemed to be pretty active with a very strange name: "hypography". Well, my methodology was to see if these sites had "bad" queries that were sucking CPU by simply pounding on their db-driven data pages. This of course meant that I actually had to spend time looking at the contents...this Hypography one was, um...different. As you all have probably been able to tell, I've got an interest in the same stuff you all are interested in, so I stuck around...
Thanks Tormod, Irish, and the rest of the team (especially Yvonne as I've posted elsewhere) its a lot of fun here!
Cheers,
Buffy
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