god on my sidegod on my side
Today I saw the movie God On My Side by Andrew Denton. It’s an interesting movie about the televangelist industry in the US. I expected it to be about the[...]
planets and day 19 of the beardplanets and day 19 of the beard
I notice that Planet Linux Australia has been changed to not list the feeds URLs, instead it displays the HTML pages for the blogs. I believe this is a bad[...]
peak oilpeak oil
This PDF (700K) gives a useful summary of the Peak Oil issues. It’s on the Defence in the National Interest (DNI) web site, an interesting site of US conservative political[...]
blogging and self-promotionblogging and self-promotion
Are blogs and conference speeches inherently about self promotion? If so is that a bad thing? Recently I mentioned my Planet configuration on a mailing list where most people don’t[...]
economics of nuclear powereconomics of nuclear power
It’s interesting to note in this press release from the Australian Greens that Dr Ziggy Switkowski (head of the Prime Minister’s nuclear taskforce) that nuclear power is not economically viable[...]
new hybrid Camrynew hybrid Camry
Toyota in the US has released a hybrid Camry which seems to be the larger Prius that many people have wanted. Since it’s release the Prius has been greatly desired[...]
blogs and bug trackingblogs and bug tracking
I believe that adding blogging technology to bug tracking systems (such as the Debian BTS and the Red Hat Bugzilla) offers significant benefits for users and developers. It seems that[...]
more about MX recordsmore about MX records
In response to my previous post someone pointed out that MX records have an obvious benefit of offering multiple servers at different priority levels. I don’t believe that this is[...]
MX vs A recordMX vs A record
One issue that has been the topic of some pointless discussion is whether a mail server should have an A record or an MX record. Mail can be delivered to[...]
day 8 of the beardday 8 of the beard
The beard is still growing steadily, and I’m still waiting for the beardly powers that some of the bearded delegates at LCA 2006 assured me that I would develop. Related[...]