June 2008
30 posts
Reducing MySQL’s sort_buffer to 1MB (from 128MB) has dropped the speed of a cron job from 50 minutes to 2:19?! http://tinyurl.com/3jqclf
Bedford Embankment now has 100yd black stripes from what I can only describe as a Bitchin’ Camaro
Making lists like @KeironWaites while drinking like @davidmoss
Installing Leopard Server on a tiny Mac for teh workgroup LOLs
Cooking spag bol in one of my palest tshirts
Pyrotechnics at Mashed have opened the roof - just like the lightning last year
Doctor Who? Doctor WTF more like
Thinking about building a “boolean broker” where users can register their true/false preferences for other services to build against
Finally packing for Mashed + trying to cram on MHEG, DVB, Comet, dojo, jQuery
Dougie Lampkin rides through Goodwood House →
Betjeman Arms breakfast and coffee
I shoot the Red Sox for a living in HD →
Deckchairs and bacon muffins
Scanning the wedding list and trying to fit deckchairs in a mini
Love the olives from the Subway ad, “Call me”
June 9th
Half of a single Father Ted episode has some of my favourite lines in it “it’s got cocaine in it”, “small / far away” + “are those my feet?”
Enjoyed a nice long chat with nextdoor’s cat this afternoon
Just found card 0505 from a balloon taking part in a race from Hutton, Essex in the garden
WatchA tour of Times Square
WatchBig Ideas (Don’t get any) © 1982 Sinclair Research Ltd
OPML twitter export - with friends tab and feeds
twitterstatus:
Recently we made a change to remove the With Friends tab from user profiles. We did this after finding out that this tab was both a relatively rarely accessed as well as computationally expensive page for us to serve.
At the same time we removed access to the feeds for this page. It’s still possible for users to receive their own With Friends timelines, but authentication is...
Just built a custom Netatalk .deb, in a Xen virtual machine, to do Time Machine backups over AFP to Debian onto LVM on RAID1
Watching the BTCC from Croft turn into a 5 hour discussion about the weather