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  • Really should use a templating engine for Meisha's website.. 21 hrs ago
  • Flicking some DNS zones around. #powerdns gsqlite3 backend really doesn't like apostrophes in TXT RRs :-P 1 day ago
  • "Firefox: It Won't Make Your Missus Puke" should be the next Mozilla slogan :-) 2 days ago
  • Questions With Obvious Answers Number 65535: Asking a sysadmin on a Friday afternoon if he wants a beer. 2 days ago
  • I hope rebirth really exists so my network administrator spends the next several lifetimes as a telemarketer. Thatll teach him. 2 days ago
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Michael Fleming

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Too Fscking Clever

If you have six discrete crontabs for a relatively small set of tasks instead of two (or even just one) you may be Too Fscking Clever.
If your SQL statement has five or more JOINS in it, you may be Too Fscking Clever (or a web development framework ORM)
If you are asked to forward ports to [...]

A Koan

A novice once came to a systems software roshi seeking wisdom:
“I am troubled. My project has become large and I am having trouble reproducing the environment across test servers. I have all my sources and I’ve installed them from source in the ways our forefathers have, but some behave in strange ways and clash with [...]

Conan The Comedian?

This makes me want to go and get a copy of the Conan The Barbarian DVD, just for the commentary. I don’t know if Ahnuld is stoned or just taking the piss, but I know that it’s a hell of a lot funnier than Twins or Kindergarten Cop.
The “Richard Simmons Juniors running around!” quip is [...]

Yeah, He Did.

Barry, just don’t fuck it up, k? Please bro? That last yokel really screwed the pooch.
(pic courtesy of punditkitchen.com)

Three little pre-Christmas requests.

Dear Lazyweb,
I’ve set up icecast as anĀ  IPV6-only experiment (the result of a half-drunken challenge from Mr Steven Lisson Esq.) and am streaming some Ogg Vorbis tracks off it with EZstream. Winamp and Totem Player (Linux/Gnome) work fine. Banshee (Gnome/Mono) and WMP however do not - WMP freezes and Banshee refuses to even start the [...]

.bullshit

Tim Berners-Lee says the Internet is full of lies
He’s quite right in saying there’s a hell of a lot of unsubstantiated and downright erroneous rubbish out there - look around FreeRepublic or StormFront or RaptureReady or the Church Of Scientology for example (and despair for humanity) and his comments makes perfect sense.
But we’re not all [...]

Accidental internet-speak meets old pop-culture reference.

ROLF (n); rolling on the floor laughing, while holding/playing a wobbleboard
(for the non-Aussie / Pom readers, or you youngsters who don’t get the above reference, it refers to this man
See what I mean on YouTube
(not a rickroll, I promise)

Rant in One Thousand Words.

 
Enough said.