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MySQL AB :: MySQL 3.23, 4.0, 4.1 Reference Manual :: 11.6 Date and Time Functions
This section describes the functions that can be used to manipulate temporal values. See Section 10.3, "Date and Time Types", for a description of the range of values each [...]

A smug, ignorant, especially middle-class person who is regarded as being indifferent or antagonistic to artistic and cultural values.

A few months ago I read a very intriguing article on typography and vertical alignment (Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid). I am not a designer and I have always found very hard to understand why certain elements and composition are pleasing, and other are not. The article in question explains that [...]

A typical salad from Cataluña. I had it several months ago on the last day in Sitges before leaving for the airport, but it is best eaten during the colder winter months (January and February in Cataluña).
Xató recipe at massrecipes.com
Serves 6.
Ingredients

2 Heads Curly endive
3 Garlic cloves
8 Almonds; peeled and toasted
1 Or more Sharp chili peppers [...]

Any of the wood, steel, or concrete beams set parallel from wall to wall or across or abutting girders to support a floor or ceiling.

The original advocaat (creamy egg and brandy liqueur) is thick and often eaten with a spoon, and the liquid version in a bottle is sold as an export. It used to be made with avocados by the Dutch in Suriname and Recife, then with egg yolk in the Netherlands where avocados were not availiable.
Windows Mobile [...]

A usually round pin that fits tightly into a corresponding hole to fasten or align two adjacent pieces.

A horizontal structural member, such as a beam or stone, that spans an opening, as between the uprights of a door or window or between two columns or piers.

To apply plaster directly to brick-work, stonework, tile, etc.; esp. to apply the first coat.

WordPress is great. However, upgrading to the latest version can be a bit of a struggle. There are quite a few thinks to keep track of (especially if you are a heavy customiser) and do in the right sequence.
If you have more than one installation, you can spend the best part of an evening doing [...]

I am a perfecly happy Google Reader user and have very little to say about it that is negative. Feeds are my main source of information and I have tried many readers (Kinja, Netvibes, Attensa, Bloglines) before settling on Google's product.
For a brief period, I used the 'share' feature in Google Reader with some items [...]

A rigid framework, as of wooden beams or metal bars, designed to support a structure, such as a roof.

I spent most of yesterday trying to figure out why I could not access WordPress from my mobile any longer. Well, it's the holidays and I can waste a day like that if I want to.
It turned out that Mobile Admin (the plugin that streamlines the WordPress admin interface for easy access from smartphones and [...]

Lively, active, and brisk; vigorous.

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boxedup.com - universal social wish list (wishlist), gift list and shopping list
I had a wishlist here but it was not as dynamically updated as the one on Amazon, and only two items on it were not available at Amazon.com. Still, the tagging and [...]

Mischievous; impish.

I love these cookies. They are very spicy (among the ingredients are black pepper and cayenne pepper) and gingery. Last year I used some as Christmas tree decorations.
Icelandic pepper cookies recipe at allrecipes.com
Ingredients

1 1/4 cups butter, softened
1 1/4 cups white sugar
3/4 cup light corn syrup
2 small eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon [...]

Yesterday morning we drove from London to Birmingham to spend Christmas with Dr B.'s parents.
I have been doing absolutely nothing for exactly thirty hours and loving every minute of it. Right now Dr B. is sleeping off the lurgy in his old bedroom, his parents are out, and I'm sitting watching telly.
The last few months [...]

If your album tracks play in the wrong order on your iPod (but in the correct one in iTunes) and no amount of syncing will fix it, it most likely is because the 'Disc Number' info is not the same for all tracks.
You can put a knocked out tooth back in. Don't clean it or [...]

To beg or get by begging.

A small bunch of flowers; a bouquet.

Lively, active, and brisk; vigorous.

Spotted or patched, especially in black and white. A piebald animal, especially a horse.

Assistance in time of distress; relief. One that affords assistance or relief.

To describe. To depict by painting or drawing.

Noise cancelling headphones that use active noise control work by recording outside sounds and creating an exactly opposite wave to the "noise" waves, which effectively cancels out all the ambient noise.
The 13th root of a 200-digit number always begins with 2, always has 16 digits, and the last digit number is always the same as [...]

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Stats for your account | flickr.com
Daily aggregate views, view counts, your most viewed photos (yesterday and all time), referrers (yesterday and all time) and breakdown of your photos.

To stop or check the flow of (blood or tears, for example).

(Scots.) The eve of New Year's Day, on which children traditionally go from house to house asking for presents. A present requested or given on this day.

A large stately residence.