warwick poole, blog.

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Previous Posts

• → Ultimate wakeup device: The Skype-enabled coffee machine
• → Is UCEPROTECT running a protection racket?
• → Never Work For Free
• → Navarro, the cat with Buffalo Butterfly wings
• → Calling out the spammers
• → Debugging Rails processes under Phusion Passenger with nginx.
• → Vodafone / Vodacom 3G in South Africa
• → Ruby self-throttling Nagios alerts
• → Configuration Management with Chef on Debian, Part 2
• → Using multiple EC2 accounts with the EC2 API tools
• → Side Project. I need one. Help me decide, idea 1: HPIT
• → Configuration Management with Chef on Debian, Part 1
• → Cliff Notes from Founder Factory 2009
• → WP Memcached Manager
• → Getting to know our Amazon Kindle

Crap From Elsewhere

• Classy exit from Engine Yard by Ezra. When my wife and I were thinking of names for our son, she really wanted to name him Ryland. I said something akin to "No reasonable human being has ever named their son Ryland". I stand corrected. Related: I met Tom Mornini at BizConf recently in an inauspicious way. Standing outside a conference room chatting to this interesting guy, I asked him what he does. "Oh, founder of Engine Yard" said Tom. "Oh" said I, and felt like an idiot.
• Two hours work and this blog is now managed with Jekyll, currently running on Heroku. Easy. No more WordPress updates and my life moves closer to total immersion in Git. No doubt some things are broken, and I've yet to move a few image galleries. Some day soon I'll make this blog not ugly.
• Does anyone know the background to the Afrikaans woman on the Roger Waters track Three Wishes on Amused to Death? Creepy.

• "The image comparison below indicates that I have something to offer in this area."

• Residents in the Virgin Islands sharing the important information online.

• Nice little villa in Peter Bay for $45,000/week.

• The Nginx mailing list is the best techlist I subscribe to.

• Who else used to marvel at the weirdness of superbad.com?

• DRBD is now in the Linux kernel expected to arrive in 2.6.33. Wow.

• The water bear, a.k.a moss piglet or Tardigrade, is a serious creature.

• Frank Oz being fairly frank on Brando, Yoda, Hollywood and his career.

• Someone will teach your cats to walk on a leash.

• Herschelle Gibbs, 36 runs in an over in St. Kitts during the World Cup, 2007.

• For Christmas, please: NJ Devils 1976 Boeing 727 with bar and cabins.

• Your idea and it's natural enemies.

• Jung's conclusion: INFP. Like Neil, Jack and Bill.

• A fairly annoying PECL memcache client bug that wasted 30 mins of my time

• Blackmail yourself into losing weight at loseitorloseit.com. Love it.

• memcache-top is top for memcached.

• The GEN H-4 is a personal helicopter.