bloodyidiots 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
fedora 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,
humour Conan The Comedian? httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86-vveE9DI4 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
humour Yeah, He Did. Chill, I got this Barry, just don’t fuck it up, k? Please bro? That last yokel really screwed the pooch. (pic courtesy of punditkitchen.com)
humour Three little pre-Christmas requests. Dear Lazyweb, I’ve set up icecast as an 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
humour .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
entertainment 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)
humour Quote of the Day... From the comments on a TIME item regarding Jesus Christ’s “may-or-may not have been true or allegory” ressurrection (via Metafilter) “I’ve already advised the Discovery Channel that if they air this I will cancel my subscription….they should be lucky that I