Fantom o’the Opera
Log4j, Tomcat, and Family Campfires
First, the family campfires bit...
Now I Remember Why I Don’t Run Sid
It used to be that I used Debian's unstable tree (Sid--named after the "unstable" child from Toy Story) for my work machine and home machines. The only problem was that occasionally, when I would update to the latest and greatest packages, things would break and then it would take a bit of time and effort to get things back to working order. To some extent, this was actually fun and a good way to learn how things work. In general, I don't learn how things work until I get over the fear of breaking something--play with it, break it, learn how to fix it, etc.
A New Family Car
I Win!!
The Night of the Terrible 406s
I have not been able to do the "blog this" thing from Flickr for a while now. Irritating. I finally had enough of it tonight, so after a few minutes Googling, I found that some hosts are blacklisting xmlrpc.php and sending back 406 errors intentionally because of security problems with old versions of xmlrpc.php/WP that people haven't bothered upgrading/fixing/patching. To get around it, all you have to do is copy your xmlrpc.php script to some other name and tell Flickr to use that endpoint instead.
Mike and the Cupcakes
The Sky is Falling
We now are the almost owners of a 2005 Chrysler, Town and Country "Truck" (read: "minivan" for those not worried about what it means to one's coolness factor to own a minivan).
Into a New Home
Just wanted to prove to everyone that I'm not dead yet. Long time no update, etc. We of the travelling Wilbury Kasper persuasion are closing on our new home this Friday!! We'll be having furniture delivered on Friday evening at our new home, our possessions (that have been in storage for the last month+) delivered on Saturday, our new refrigerator delivered on Saturday, and our new mattress delivered on Saturday too.
Daily Thoughts from C.S. Lewis, part deux
So, as part of the new and exciting me, I've decided that I need to start reading more books. Well, this and that I need to finish the books that I start. Currently, I have around... oh... 392 books that have bookmarks somewhere within the first quarter of them.