Yesterday we adopted a beautiful, 2½ month-old Border Collie puppy. He was the more curious and attentive of two brothers, though it was still a difficult choice! He is heart-stoppingly cute, has that adorable “new puppy” smell, soft and fluffy long fur, and is already beginning to figure out the inscrutable noises of the silly [...]
A single scene completely redeems one of the worst films of all time…
So much awesome.
Just mentioned it in the comments of my previous post, but it’s worth a more public reminder…
That’s what I would describe as “the hopes and dreams of a generation” (of Software Freedom lovers), and is the result of fantastic product definition, branding, genuine user excitement, years of incredible — and largely unsung — work of [...]
I have really enjoyed watching the iterative improvements to the original Ubuntu login screen theme. Well, at least until Intrepid, which looked awfully familiar… but the grungy additions kept me attempting to clean my screen in vain. Here’s a slightly earlier variant, quite a few lovely iterations beyond my original implementation (which was entirely too [...]
Goodness me, Pipka and I were married four years ago today. What an adventure! It’s hard to believe how much we’ve achieved together in the last four years. Some musings…
It feels like ages ago that Pia started a company, named in such a way that I would eventually have to join… and join I did. [...]
If you have quite a few Debian or Ubuntu machines and you want an easy way to share and speed up package downloads — or reduce your bandwidth consumption — then approx is for you! It’s incredibly easy to set up, but there are a few tricks I’ve learned which can make it especially good [...]
… because it includes pictures of dreadfully cute kittens… yay!
This as-yet-unnamed specimen is destined to be a farm cat — yes, shock, a working cat… catching mice, vermin, etc. — but he had some time in between drinking milk and discovering the world to visit us today. There are a few more shots in my [...]
Awesome new ad from the South Australian Government that combines artfully executed slow motion video with some of the tell-tale signs of scare campaign advertising tactics…
“There’s a lot of competition to get attention so you need to have a very stark message, a sharp message, and I think this ad, in a very short amount [...]
This chart represents the regular activity of an Apache server from Monday to Thursday — a massive spike of non-idle processes starting around lunch time — and then an eerily quiet Friday. No, it wasn’t a public holiday, it’s just evidence of win. Notice the gaps late on the 2nd and early on the 3rd? [...]
Sometimes when you need to manage a massive pile of URL redirections — for instance, when you’re playing snatch-the-tablecloth with your web platform — it’s handy to mash them all together with mod_rewrite’s RewriteMap feature.
I hit a frustrating stumbling block with a recent project, however: What happens if you need your RewriteMap key to be [...]
