Rush, Snakes, Arrows, PHP, MySQL, Developer Days, and Delphi: all one big conspiracy
Rush has a special place in my heart. Rush Signals tour, was my first rock concert, Geddy was my first (virtual) bass tutor - I learned to play bass to Fly by Night, Moving Pictures, 2112, and Farewell to Kings - plus many many great concert memories and songs and albums… On Thursday March 1st, Rush is releasing Snakes and Arrows. I’ve been listening to the meager 15 second clip of “Far Cry“ on their website for a few weeks eagerly waiting the album release - (yes I realize how fan geeky that sounds). Hopefully that 15 second clip is indicitive of the whole album. What does this have to do with CodeGear and my blog? umm… nothing really…. except that I’m going to buy the album on Thursday and rip it into my Zune before I leave for Japan on Saturday for CodeGear Developer events in Tokyo, Sydney, and Melbourne - (yes I’m one of the eight or nine people in the world that bought a Zune - i got the matte black one - and I am still searching for my first wireless friend to share a DRMless song with)
Tokyo CodeGear Developer Camp - March 6th
Sydney CodeGear Developer Day - March 8th
Melbourne CodeGear Developer Day - March 9th
Hmm, I just noticed that the Rush website is written in PHP! So… a new Rush album and Delphi for PHP in the same month. Cooincidence? No way. Rush is a Canadian band and my first Borland boss in ‘97 (and original Delphi product manager), Zack Urlocker, received his Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo… in… you guessed it… Candada! still think it’s all a cooincidence? Both Delphi for PHP and the new Delphi 2007 for Win32 support MySQL 5 (as well as InterBase!) out of the box, and get this, Zack is Vice President of Marketing for MySQL… There are no cooincidences!
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Posted by Michael Swindell on February 25th, 2007 under Music and Media |12 Responses to “Rush, Snakes, Arrows, PHP, MySQL, Developer Days, and Delphi: all one big conspiracy”
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February 25th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Have a good trip. I am looking forward to seeing you in Melbourne.
February 25th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
Never underestimate those Canadians.
February 26th, 2007 at 12:13 am
Rush rock! I do my best (Delphi) work with Rush blasting in the background
Tom Sawyer is a Delphi programmer
February 26th, 2007 at 3:35 am
Rush is Cool! We are tricked by Circumstances
February 26th, 2007 at 6:21 am
Just so you stay focused on fighting those priests of the Temples of Redmond,er, Syrinx.
February 26th, 2007 at 10:10 am
I instantly thought about Python when I read about snakes..
February 26th, 2007 at 11:20 am
You really, really need to careful and keep all these coincidences in line. Breaking the chain will have a very serious negative effect on your juju … the only avenue I see open to you is very deep discounts on CG products for … <wait for it> … Canadians.
Enjoy your trip.
February 28th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Sorry Mike, it’s actually *May* 1st that the album is being released. I *wish* it was tomorrow, but alas, wait we must.
February 28th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Sorry Mike, it’s actually *May* 1st that the album is being released. I *wish* it was tomorrow, but alas, wait we must.
February 28th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Oops, sorry for the duplicate post. I got an error on the first Sumbit (.Text something or other…).
February 28th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
whoa… May… Ah. You know what it is, the single is coming out in March… Oh well…
March 1st, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Michael, we really need to start a band. Can we start with Louie, Louie?
–Zack