Current Music: NASA -- Mars Scientific Laboratory landing
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Current Music: Headless Chickens -- Juice
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Current Music: Yoko Kanno -- Inner Universe
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Current Music: Snow Patrol -- Chasing Cars
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Current Music: Freur -- Doot Doot (12" Mix)
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Current Music: Silence

Dear Lazyweb,

The way Apache names its access logs is causing me grief and, because my bashfu is weak, I'm calling on you for assistance.

( Cut to prevent non-technical types encountering the Lovecraftian madness of shell scripting )

Current Music: In the Nursery -- Bombed
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Current Music: Underworld -- Billy Goat

High amongst my top ten movie rants is a speech about Hell, delivered in cameo by author Tom Keneally in Fred Schepsi's semi-autobiographical The Devil's Playground. Keneally's bearded and softly-spoken Jesuit uses an extraordinary analogy to explain to his captive audience what the eternal part of "eternal ( Read more... )

Current Music: Underworld -- Beautiful Burnout
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Current Music: Underworld -- JAL to Tokyo

Lamer Senator and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy's ever-expanding plan to cripple the country's internets (a policy supported by around 6% of Australians) has been blocked in the Senate by the independent Senator for the Murray-Darling, Nick Xenophon ( Read more... )