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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 [...]

Some updates, and a little “open sermon”

I’m in the unusual position of being inside, yet rugged up with a jacket and scarf with what feels like a cold. I can’t say I’m happy about it.
Upgraded Wordpress here to 2.7.1 (Fedora 11 RPM rebuilt for F10) without too many hassles. It kept retrying the database upgrade(!) but disabling the plugins and a [...]

Result may be fit, social with an open messaging standard on top.

Techie Happenings:
I’ve been tinkering with more XMPP (Jabber to you oldies) messaging in general, as it happens. I’ve had a look at the python Yahoo transport and found it a little lacking - it’s config is a little too different to the python MSN / ICQ / AIM transports than I’d personally like, which I’m [...]

This is why I’m not a “webmaster”

In an effort to help my girlfriends website generate a bit of traffic  - and some business for her - I’ve spent a bit of time (probably a little too much for a holidaying techie, but it’s a “love job”) trying to get my head around more indepth search engine optimisation and Google Analytics [...]

Murphy is my co-pilot.

After moving what seems to be several mountains at the workplace over the last few weeks, I’m finally on holiday. Additionally, my girlfriend is back from interstate, which makes me even happier.
Alas, nature doesn’t like us and lo, as soon as she stepped off the plane it started raining - and it hasn’t stopped. It [...]

Where to from here?

I seem to have found myself at a crossroads. Not a personal one (well, not really) but hobby / professional. Make of that what you will.
Firstly, I’ve been doing IT support and systems administration for a living for nigh on nine years now. I’d been a Linux tinkerer well before then (I got into mail [...]

Crackberries, Earth Hour and Web 2.0 boredom

After having a good laugh at “crackberry” users and their addiction for what seemed like forever, I gave in and traded in my not-trusty-at-all Nokia Slide for a Blackberry Storm.
After playing with it for a while, I must say it’s not bad. Getting used to typing with it was a pain in the arse (protip: [...]

Smallish things.

Well, one thing is fairly important if you’re a long time user. “enlartenment.com” is gradually going away.
I’ve had the domain for what seems like forever and no one seems to understand the etymology. In essence it’s a bit hackish - a mashup of “enlightenment” and “LART”. Previous webpages here explained it but I got the [...]