{"id":3262,"date":"2011-03-09T08:22:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T06:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/?p=3262"},"modified":"2011-03-09T13:06:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T11:06:23","slug":"would-you-be-my-friend-on-mysqlconf-tempting-offer-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/mysql\/would-you-be-my-friend-on-mysqlconf-tempting-offer-inside","title":{"rendered":"Would you be my friend on mysqlconf? (tempting offer inside)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still throwing papers to the trash and starting all over, fixing, rewriting and improving my talk at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysqlconf.com\/\">mysqlconf 2011<\/a>, where I will be presenting <a href=\"http:\/\/en.oreilly.com\/mysql2011\/public\/schedule\/detail\/17155\">openark-kit: MySQL utilities for everyday use<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However I&#8217;ve got something up my sleeve: a benefit many can enjoy, that&#8217;ll make me a respectful, popular and sought after speaker. While others may try and lure you with such <em>earthly<\/em> temptations as a <strong>20%<\/strong> off discount, I am in a position to offer you a more <em>spiritual<\/em> gift: my friendship!<\/p>\n<p>See, if you become my friend, I can offer you a <strong>25%<\/strong> discount on the MySQL conference. Yes, that&#8217;s <strong>5%<\/strong> more than my competitors! The only thing I ask in return is that you be my friend (hey, it&#8217;s called &#8220;friends of speaker&#8221;). Not like a FB virtual friend, but a <em>real<\/em> friendship! One where you can buy me <em>beer<\/em> or <em>dinner<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>If you agree to such humane terms, I will be in the position to let you know that all you have to do is fill in <strong>\ufeff\ufeff\ufeffmys11fsd<\/strong> in your registration form.<\/p>\n<p>No, wait! I let it slip! Rewrite: You should fill in <del><strong>\ufeff\ufeff\ufeffmys11fsd <\/strong><\/del><em>[will only tell you this password after your commitment to a beer]<\/em> in your registration form.<\/p>\n<p><em>Oh no, not again! <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t use <a href=\"https:\/\/en.oreilly.com\/mysql2011\/public\/regwith\/mys11fsd\"><strong>\ufeff\ufeff\ufeffmys11fsd<\/strong><\/a> without talking to me first&#8230; You&#8217;re not supposed to&#8230; <em>Oh, my beer!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Argghhh!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still throwing papers to the trash and starting all over, fixing, rewriting and improving my talk at mysqlconf 2011, where I will be presenting openark-kit: MySQL utilities for everyday use. However I&#8217;ve got something up my sleeve: a benefit many can enjoy, that&#8217;ll make me a respectful, popular and sought after speaker. While others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[36,39,34],"class_list":["post-3262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql","tag-humor","tag-mysqlconf","tag-openark-kit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2bZZp-QC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3262"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3392,"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions\/3392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}