So, through no fault of our own, we find ourselves in the World Cup Quarter Final, playing Portugal tomorrow afternoon. The prize is a Semi-Final match against the winner of Brazil v. France. It’s a bit of a mystery how England have managed to get even this far, because despite having watched all their games, they never seemed to play terribly well; not exactly badly, just nothing that struck me as all that impressive.<\/p>\n
Edit, after The Match:<\/strong>: Penalties. Again. Bugger.<\/p>\n And on a totally unrelated note, I’ve been learning even more about PostgreSQL<\/a> recently, in my attempt to draw up a suitable specification for a high performance database server. Different RAID levels, different numbers of disks, how to configure the PostgreSQL process to make the best of the available resources and so on, as well as good strategies for indexing of tables. This database server is going to take quite aheavy load, so I need to get it right. Fingers crossed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, through no fault of our own, we find ourselves in the World Cup Quarter Final, playing Portugal tomorrow afternoon. The prize is a Semi-Final match against the winner of Brazil v. France. It’s a bit of a mystery how England have managed to get even this far, because despite having watched all their games,… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}