Enjoying the end of another work week. Hope you are too. Even if we're working into the weekend.

  • Time-zone database down - This is actually a huge big deal; a lawsuit (that appears somewhat dubious on its face) has caused the database of timezones that pretty much everything depends on to go offline. More info on the facts here.
  • Google Cloud SQL: your database in the cloud - Google has implemented a MySQL workalike in the Google App Engine cloud environment.