Author: Erik Williams

Totally gutted for pole sitter Valtteri Bottas who effectively had the win in Sochi taken away from him to favour Lewis in the driver’s championship. Was Toto right to hit the tactical button on his panel and make that call? Yes. But it still sucks. I’m with di Resta on this one…to be a fly on the wall during Merc’s debrief this evening. It should prove most interesting. Speaking of which…Vladimir Putin indicating that he’d…

Portland Thorns FC 0 - 3 NC Courage (FT) Most wins in a season (17). Most points in a season (57). Most goals in a season (53). Only one loss and 15 points clear at the top of the table. 2018 Women's International Champions Cup 2018 NWSL Shield (best regular season record) 2018 NWSL Champions First NWSL shield winner to ever win the NWSL championship. #NoFinishLine #TH3HUNT #NWSLChampionship #NCvPOR

The local news station has their helicopter working their way south from Raleigh…downtown Fayetteville actually looks fairly decent and the bridges are generally open but that water is right under the deck of the bridges (and at the railroad bridge just north of downtown, there are a bunch of logs piled up right at the bridge deck). Getting there from Raleigh would be a bit of a trick…most of I-95 is closed from US-64 (Rocky…

Just wanted to give all of my friends and family on Facebook a quick update…all is well here in East Raleigh. Other than a few power flickers and one outage lasting about a hour…my oldest son and I came through the storm just fine. NWS Raleigh is estimating we got about 8-10" of rain from Florence which was actually more than what Matthew dumped on us two years ago. There was localised flooding in the…

I just saw an alert that another tropical cyclone named Gordon has formed and will be wandering from the keys past the western coast of Florida and it reminded me of driving in the Tampa/St Petersburg area when Hurricane Gordon was passing close ashore in September, 2000. I had gone walkabout in the area whilst waiting for a pre-season tilt between the Carolina Hurricanes and Tampa Bay Lightning and was driving northbound over the Sunshine…

I've recently discovered HeidiSQL after driving Oracle's "MySQL Workbench" for years to develop a registration database/web application for Horses for Hope where Alexander does therapeutic horseback riding. Don't get me wrong…"MySQL Workbench" has been a wonderful tool for development, especially when it came to doing exports/imports as part of the backup and migration strategy for the application. However, I've recently found myself in the situation where I'm dealing with three different versions/flavours of MySQL: WAMPSERVER…