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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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De-stressing

Hey Yaakov, make that four users once I’ve set it up, I certainly do like the looks of it. A good tool that makes any job easier is a winner in my book, and that looks like a good one indeed.
This weekend was a long one in my neck of the woods, being the Labour [...]

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 [...]

I’m getting fitter!

As most folks who know me personally know, I’m not exactly a little guy. Not huge (175cm / 95kg or 5′9″ and 205lb in the old money) but not a lightweight either. I used to be even bigger in times past - 110kg at one stage a few years ago. There’s some gallery photos to [...]

Enlightened kids and new toys and spring cleaning..

Posted to the U-Zendo mailing list:

…even comic characters understand the concept of impermanence
Me:
I’ve been doing some server infrastructure and web R&D lately; I am a fairly recent convert to the benefits of PowerDNS, especially the recursor, which I’ve now installed on qbert in place of BIND (there’s nothing wrong with BIND per [...]

A story saved for posterity.

The redesign of the site is progressing well and I would expect it to be essentially complete by the weekend at the latest. I’ve had to make some calls regarding stuff that should stay and go - among the casualties is my old Journal, which will remain but have no links from the main page [...]

Happiness Is A Returning Friend.

This week has been interesting indeed for me. It’s had it’s ups and downs however it was happily mostly positive.
Wednesday was “Futile Effort To Save A RAID-5 Array” day; One of the email-to-SMS services dropped a drive half an hour before quitting time (as they are wont to do) and it soon became apparent that [...]

And the Antichrist is…?

Apparently the Antichrist is here and …. is a Buddha?
W. T. F? Have I missed a memo somewhere? Are the nutjobs running for mayor of Bedlam again?
Seriously - when you’re naming the future Buddha Maitreya (Buddha of Compassion no less!) as the coming of Satan, you’re clutching at straws. Of course he can’t be the [...]