If you're going to experience failure, it's awesome to have the company make that easy. I do have two Dell laptops at home (ages 4 and 5 years) that have never had a single issue. My wife's macbook had a battery failure within 2 years, but Apple replaced it even though it was out of warranty. We've since sold that one, and got a new one, and I hope it continues to work without issue.
I would imagine this success made walking away from that other success (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=338286) easier. And, of course, GitHub is proving an even greater success.
Your story, once written, will be one of a man fighting tooth and nail with success coming from all directions.
More generally, there are basically two kinds of apps that connect to a database: "application databases" that are the primary or sole user of a database and use it for all their persistence needs, and "integration databases" that are one of many interacting with the database. Web apps usually work with application databases. AFAIK Martin Fowler coined this terminology/distinction, see http://martinfowler.com/bliki/ApplicationDatabase.html .
For application databases, usually having any kind of view/stored procs/triggers/prepared statements is a smell that you're conflating business logic with persistence.
I am sure that you are not the only one who requires such an application. Regardless, that is not a database (certainly not a relational/SQL one), it is effectively a dumb object store. I meant nothing derogatory when I pointed out that drizzle was not a database. Just that databases are a very well defined utilities (cf. ANSI SQL standard). MySQL already pushed the bottom end of the envelop. Calling drizzle a database is a flat out lie. Heck, if I ever just want a transactional system for storing undifferentiated blobs, I will probably end up using this product.
I live in Atlanta and have essentially been sedentary since graduation a few years ago (I average 1 or 2 30 minute workouts a week). This isn't enough to keep the creep off.
I moved right into the middle of the city so that walking opportunities would be more prevalent and that's helped as a lifestyle change.
I had a hard time keeping up with going to the gym on my own and recently joined a sort of group exercise thing. There's a little more accountability with this as people expect me to be there in the morning. So far that's working well, and it has motivated me to start running in the afternoon so I don't suck so much in the class.
Either Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is over-rated, or I do not get it at all. Read it for a second time two months ago, and could not see why it is so famous. It is a good book, do not get me wrong.
