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Switching Things Up
Yesterday, I quietly switched this site over from its old Apache server to the much more lightweight combination of nginx + XCache. As someone who has worked with Apache servers for roughly 14 years now, the thought of moving my personal site to a server environment that I didn’t know how to troubleshoot in great detail was terrifying.…
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Bands I Want To See In 2010
While my list is a little shorter than in years past, I’d be perfectly happy if I got to see all (or at least most) of these bands sometime in the next 365 days. The Hold Steady LCD Soundsystem The xx Tokyo Police Club The Pixies Eels Who’s on your “must see” list this year?
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Left 4 Dead: NES Edition
The only thing that makes me happier than knowing that this exists is knowing that it should be available for download in January of 2010. Anyone have any suggestions for good NES emulators for Linux?
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Crowds Have Terrible Taste
I totally missed this video when it made the rounds months ago — but after watching it, I think Christopher R. Weingarten is my new hero. Well, maybe not my hero. But at least he’s my favorite music critic now. If topics like crowdsourcing and its effects on criticism interest you at all, the video…
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Karmic Koala
An (apparently) unnecessary reinstall of Ubuntu 9.10 allowed me to clean up my netbook a bit. Fortunately, the fresh install was a snap. All I had to do was copy the few files I wanted to keep into my Dropbox, wait for it to update and reinstall from my USB keychain drive with impunity. While…
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Rekismet
After examining a customer’s 150,000+ row wp_comments table at work yesterday, I realized that they’d managed to let WordPress approve a massive amount of spam. Since there was no way I was going back thru all of that by hand, I knew that I had to come up with something clever. Fortunately, running your already…
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Just Another Magic Monday
Have you recently found yourself editing a post on your WordPress install only to find yourself facing the following prompt? The server at Magic requires a username and password. Well my friend, you’ve been hacked. Apparently this has something to do with the cross-site scripting (XSS) bug addressed with the WordPress 2.8.2 and 2.8.3 updates.…
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Summer Skin
Thanks to the release of (Nerd)Press, I’ve switched up the site’s theme a little bit. And while the jumbo header and splash of Colourise will be sorely missed, I’ve gotta say that I’m really enjoying its super minimal replacement. Not only does it elegantly tuck comments out of sight — without disabling them completely, I might add…
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Left 4 Dead 2: Electric Boogaloo
Squee! My all-time favorite multiplayer FPS is getting a sequel! And melee weapons! This has managed to make me so excited that I can’t seem to stop using exclamation points! Oh. Wait. Yes I can. *whew* That was a close one. Last time I got stuck like that it took me a week to snap…
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GrowlMail and Safari 4
While I’m really happy with the Safari 4 beta, I was a little dismayed to find that Mail.app started dying shortly after the update. The system’s complaint was that GrowlMail was causing a problem that made Mail.app become hella unstable. So what was their suggestion? Turn GrowlMail off until there was an update for it.…