Apache Admin Notes: Knowing …

For those unaware, I'm an Apache web server admin­is­tra­tor. How­ever, for the last few years, a vari­ety of other web servers have been gain­ing in pop­u­lar­ity and build­ing ded­i­cated fol­low­ings around them­selves. 8 years ago when I started Web­slum your web server options were basi­cally iPlanet (now Sun Java Sys­tem Web Server), Apache, and IIS (which no one


Christmas Time For My Kitchen

This has been a week of bar­gain shop­ping and self grat­i­fi­ca­tion. It's remark­ably dif­fi­cult for some­one with a birth­day that butts ass-backwards up against Christ­mas to truly be self­less this time of year, and my recent spend­ing spree only rein­forces this state­ment. On the 22nd I picked up an 18" John Boos end grain wal­nut butcher block cut­ting


Yule time soundtrack

My favorite thing about Christ­mas is that it's per­fectly (un)acceptable to crank The Van­dals record "Oi to The World" all day at work. When you want to mix it up a lit­tle, the No Doubt cover of "Oi to The World" will also suf­fice for a quick interlude.


Sad Cog

This makes me extra sad in light of the fact that Ozh just tore this down as "Do Not Want" in his his­tory of the Word­Press admin inter­face. I didn't mind that admin­is­tra­tion design at all, find­ing it much more usable than the one that existed before it. I'm told that nowa­days that means I have


Ping!

Reports of my demise have been greatly exag­ger­ated. While it is true that I've all but dis­ap­peared, I have at least been work­ing in the back­ground. I've been work­ing on upgrad­ing all of the hosted word­press sites I main­tain (and the one I don't) to Word­Press 2.7, and I've begun search­ing for a new theme to adopt for my


Christopher Moore…

is a palette cleanser; I can grind through one of his nov­els in about 5 hours, it's light on the mind, and doesn't require much deep thought. It occa­sion­ally elic­its a com­fort­able chuckle and doesn't leave any sort of con­tro­ver­sial after­taste. His work is the lit­er­ary equiv­a­lent of a light flan or sor­bet served between courses: it's not the point


Nostalgia sammich

Circa 2003