Blag o' dkam

Over at our website.

OK – I’ve made the last change to Bookie for a while. The search form is now available on both pages – meaning navigation is a no brainer. I’ve also moved the site officially to a VPS.

I’m in danger of becoming a link whore. But sometimes you just have to share the love. Religion 101: Final Exam is also pretty funny stuff. A choice quote:

You are the incarnated Son of the all-powerful and all-loving Creator of the universe. What would be a good way to demonstrate your compassion and power?

• Cure cancer forever
• Cause all the earth’s deserts to bloom with food crops
• Unite the world with a common language and an end to poverty
• Conjure up a jug of wine and follow it up by walking on water

Browsing around I came across this page – I ‘ve seen it before but I thought I’d link to it for your pleasure. It’s the Anonymous Atheist Complaint Box.

It’ll be time soon to move to a real host. My single 1GHz CPU with 750MB of RAM was a good starting point, put it’s really not up to snuff. And by real of course I mean a VPS host. Which is new hotness. Real hosts are old and busted.

I’ve gone with Gentoo of course, being the Ricer than I am. -O99 and all that. I should probably have gone with Debian Etch. It is the OS I work with as a professional and lets face it, way faster to install. On the other hand, the new host, being at the bottom of the list of the VPS on offer at my host ( slicehost.com ), it has only 256MB of RAM – so the obvious optimisation is clearly -Os. Which no doubt will make a huge difference. To avoid pushing into swap, it’s running on 4 mongrel instances – which should probably be just fine for the time being.

It’s address is http://bookie.geckin.com.au/ – let me know what you think of performance.

MouseOver on the delivery rate will now give you a Tool-Tip containing delivery information for that shop. Makes it easy to see now that while some shops are expensive, they may offer multiple deliveries for a flat rate.

Saw this meme on Ben’s Blog

My OSX laptop, used at work and home, for business and pleasure:

history |awk '{print $2}'| awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'| sort|uniq -c | sort -r |head -20
  84 ssh
  71 cd
  64 ls
  23 rsync
  22 openssl
  17 less
  15 stunnel
  14 killall
  12 svn
  12 scp
  11 find
  10 script/console
  10 netstat
   9 vim
   9 rm
   8 rake
   8 ps
   8 mongrel_rails
   7 tail
   7 sqlite3