Re: PostgreSQL DBA in SPAAAAAAAACE

Thanks for the support guys, if nothing else, this week has been memorable. :)

It seems I lied on my entry--my little brother didn't have my old
capsule models. They were actually still back in my childhood bedroom:
http://twitpic.com/7sc0jv The covered in dust thing was still correct
though :)

Note to self: buy Mom new camera.

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Cédric Villemain
<cedric(dot)villemain(dot)debian(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Le 12 décembre 2011 14:25, Mark Morgan Lloyd
> <markMLl(dot)pgsql-general(at)telemetry(dot)co(dot)uk> a écrit :
>> Rob Sargent wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12/06/2011 01:56 PM, Glyn Astill wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ______________________________
>>>>
>>>>> From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
>>>>> To: Joe Miller <joe(dot)d(dot)miller(at)gmail(dot)com> Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 17:30
>>>>> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL DBA in SPAAAAAAAACE
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Joe Miller <joe(dot)d(dot)miller(at)gmail(dot)com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You may have seen this, but RedGate software is sponsoring a contest
>>>>>> to send a DBA on a suborbital space flight.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And there is a PostgreSQL representative....me!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.dbainspace.com/finalists/joe-miller
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Voting is open for 7 days. Don't let one of those Oracle or SQL Server
>>>>>> punks win :p
>>>>>
>>>>> so jealous -- I didn't make the cut.  Well, you'll have my vote.
>>>>>
>>>>> merlin
>>>>>
>>>> Me neither, voted. Good luck.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Tried to vote, but never got the mail to confirm my vote?
>>
>>
>> Message comes with header "Confirm your vote", so a firewall that is
>> over-zealous catching "confirm your account" type emails will can it.
>>
>> I suspect that we're supposed to do this every day- I'm sure that Certain
>> Corporates will have no compunction at using multiple votes.
>
> Correct
> «Thanks for your vote. You can vote for your favorite DBA every day to
> boost their chances of traveling beyond the blue and into space»
>
>>
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>> markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
>>
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>>
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