diff --git a/examples/benchmarks.rb b/examples/benchmarks.rb
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index f50c466..0000000
--- a/examples/benchmarks.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-require "benchmark"
-
-$LOAD_PATH[0,0] = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', 'lib')
-require 'mongo'
-
-host = ENV['MONGO_RUBY_DRIVER_HOST'] || 'localhost'
-port = ENV['MONGO_RUBY_DRIVER_PORT'] || Mongo::Connection::DEFAULT_PORT
-
-puts "Connecting to #{host}:#{port}"
-db = Mongo::Connection.new(host, port).db('ruby-mongo-examples')
-coll = db.collection('test')
-coll.remove
-
-OBJS_COUNT = 100
-TEST_COUNT = 100
-
-puts "Generating benchmark data"
-msgs = %w{hola hello aloha ciao}
-arr = (0..OBJS_COUNT).collect {|x| { :number => x, :rndm => (rand(5)+1), :msg => msgs[rand(4)] }}
-
-puts "Running benchmark"
-Benchmark.bmbm do |results|
-  results.report("single object inserts:  ") {
-    TEST_COUNT.times {
-      coll.remove
-      arr.each {|x| coll.insert(x)}
-    }
-  }
-  results.report("multiple object insert: ") {
-    TEST_COUNT.times {
-      coll.remove
-      coll.insert(arr)
-    }
-  }
-  results.report("find_one: ") {
-    TEST_COUNT.times {
-      coll.find_one(:number => 0)
-    }
-  }
-end
-
-coll.remove
diff --git a/examples/blog.rb b/examples/blog.rb
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index 27b3f12..0000000
--- a/examples/blog.rb
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@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
-require "rubygems"
-
-class Exception
-  def errmsg
-    "%s: %s\n%s" % [self.class, message, (backtrace || []).join("\n") << "\n"]
-  end
-end
-
-$LOAD_PATH[0,0] = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', 'lib')
-require 'mongo'
-
-include Mongo
-
-host = ENV['MONGO_RUBY_DRIVER_HOST'] || 'localhost'
-port = ENV['MONGO_RUBY_DRIVER_PORT'] || Connection::DEFAULT_PORT
-
-puts ">> Connecting to #{host}:#{port}"
-DB = Connection.new(host, port).db('ruby-mongo-blog')
-
-LINE_SIZE = 120
-puts "=" * LINE_SIZE
-puts "Adding authors"
-authors = DB.collection "authors"
-authors.remove
-authors.create_index "meta", '_id' => 1, 'name' => 1, 'age' => 1
-puts "-" * LINE_SIZE
-shaksp = authors << { :name => "William Shakespeare", :email => "william@shakespeare.com", :age => 587 }
-puts "shaksp : #{shaksp.inspect}"
-borges = authors << { :name => "Jorge Luis Borges", :email => "jorge@borges.com", :age => 123 }
-puts "borges : #{borges.inspect}"
-puts "-" * LINE_SIZE
-puts "authors ordered by age ascending"
-puts "-" * LINE_SIZE
-authors.find({}, :sort => [{'age' => 1}]).each {|x| puts "%-25.25s : %-25.25s : %3i" % [x['name'], x['email'], x['age']]}
-
-puts "=" * LINE_SIZE
-puts "Adding users"
-users = DB.collection "users"
-users.remove
-# users.create_index "meta", :_id => 1, :login => 1, :name => 1
-puts "-" * LINE_SIZE
-jdoe = users << { :login => "jdoe", :name => "John Doe", :email => "john@doe.com" }
-puts "jdoe : #{jdoe.inspect}"
-lsmt = users << { :login => "lsmith", :name => "Lucy Smith", :email => "lucy@smith.com" }
-puts "lsmt : #{lsmt.inspect}"
-puts "-" * LINE_SIZE
-puts "users ordered by login ascending"
-puts "-" * LINE_SIZE
-users.find({}, :sort => [{'login' => 1}]).each {|x| puts "%-10.10s : %-25.25s : %-25.25s" % [x['login'], x['name'], x['email']]}
-
-puts "=" * LINE_SIZE
-puts "Adding articles"
-articles = DB.collection "articles"
-articles.remove
-# articles.create_index "meta", :_id => 1, :author_id => 1, :title => 1
-puts "-" * LINE_SIZE
-begin
-  art1 = articles << { :title => "Caminando por Buenos Aires", :body => "Las callecitas de Buenos Aires tienen ese no se que...", :author_id => borges["_id"].to_s }
-  puts "art1 : #{art1.inspect}"
-rescue => e
-  puts "Error: #{e.errmsg}"
-end
-begin
-  art2 = articles << { :title => "I must have seen thy face before", :body => "Thine eyes call me in a new way", :author_id => shaksp["_id"].to_s, :comments => [ { :user_id => jdoe["_id"].to_s, :body => "great article!" } ] }
-  puts "art2 : #{art2.inspect}"
-rescue => e
-  puts "Error: #{e.errmsg}"
-end
-puts "-" * LINE_SIZE
-puts "articles ordered by title ascending"
-puts "-" * LINE_SIZE
-articles.find({}, :sort => [{'title' => 1}]).each {|x| puts "%-25.25s : %-25.25s" % [x['title'], x['author_id']]}
-
-puts ">> Closing connection"
-DB.close
-puts "closed"