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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

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

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 of a

Yeah, He Did.

[https://i0.wp.com/www.thatfleminggent.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/political-pictures-barack-obama-chill-out-got-this.jpg] Chill, I got thisBarry, 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 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 – WMP

.bullshit

Tim Berners-Lee says the Internet is full of lies [http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24363626-5014239,00.html] 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

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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Harris] See what I mean on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?

Rant in One Thousand Words.

[https://www.thatfleminggent.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/onnotice.jpg] [https://i1.wp.com/www.thatfleminggent.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/onnotice.jpg] Enough said.

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 [http://time-blog.com/middle_east/2007/02/jesus_tales_from_the_crypt.html]Â (via Metafilter) “I’ve already advised the Discovery Channel that if they air this I will cancel