Apache Admin Notes: Raw …

In late Decem­ber I started look­ing at alter­na­tive web servers, hav­ing hit a point where I actu­ally asked aloud (though to no one in par­tic­u­lar) why I still use Apache for any http or php needs that may arise. I sat down, installed nginx (nginx 0.6.33) from the EPEL (Extra Pack­ages for Enter­prise Linux) repos­i­to­ries and lighttpd (lighttpd 1.4.20) from


Talk Sex…

with Sue Johan­son is prob­a­bly one of my favorite shows that I for­get to watch. I love that she's sweet like your grand­mother yet still seems like she gets down at home, age and all. I feel like this woman has left a string of bro­ken men, now use­less to the world, in her wake. If Oxy­gen had their shit


I have awesome search hits

In an effort to game the page rank, and rein­force some of the hor­ren­dously ter­ri­ble things I have to say about peo­ple, here's the top searches that lead back to here, fol­lowed by the shit that these sites are prob­a­bly refer­ring to: kris roe phở­tog­ra­phy book, skinny but still fat, and kris roe hair These all refer


Software Regret

Alex Payne of Twit­ter (the social net­work every­one but me uses) has posted a well struc­tured list of soft­ware he's paid for but no longer users. I am in a sim­i­lar boat thanks to sites like Mac­Zot, where I have licenses for shit I will never, ever use again or for appli­ca­tions whose func­tion­al­ity was replaced by some­thing bet­ter later on.


What the hell is www.51ffer …

If any­one reads french, I'd love to know what the site this guy is talk­ing about is. All I get from it is "Free direc­tory" and it looks like it's just a big old shit-heap of links. And what gives any­one the impres­sion that pager­ank means any­thing to me? I'm not really into SEO as a lifestyle and I really


Minute Photographic

Ear­lier this week Gor­don Ryan (who needs to do some­thing about his naked-ass site) and I dis­cussed daily photo blogs. A short search for a back­end, and a few days later evilskull.com has been pressed back into ser­vice. While I've got some tem­plate and .htac­cess tweak­ing to do, the pro­vided "Hori­zon" tem­plate suits my needs and tastes well enough.


A word about ska bands

In the last month I've been to two ska-punk shows with all-or-almost-all-cracker ska bands open­ing up, and one thing is abun­dantly clear to me: There is a rea­son peo­ple say that white folks have no soul. I've real­ized that gen­er­ally these cracker bands play ska too fast, too clean, and too mechan­i­cally. They're almost always lack­ing any sort