complich8′s journal

This story I ran into (via technocrat) is interesting, if nothing else as an informative commentary on human nature and the nature of disgust. It talks about opposition to pumping reclaimed water from sewage treatment back into a reservoir and adding it back to the supply of potable water — after being extensively treated and [...]

Since it was installed on this instance (not terribly long ago, a couple months I guess), akismet has caught 995 spams. That’s … well … All I can say is, great work, akismet. That’s a lot of spam that I didn’t have to wade through.

So, I got communication between my two webservers to be entirely wrapped in ipsec (aes-hmac-sha1) yesterday, and today extended that to enable nfsv4 over that tunnel. This makes me happy, except that the original reason I did that doesn’t seem to be strictly necessary (ie: php sessions appear to cause the browser to affine with [...]

So, for a long time I’ve been a pico/nano user. Then one day I just sort of suddenly started using vim. I don’t know why … I just did. I think it was about 2, 3 months ago maybe. Away from “intuitive” and towards “efficient” I suppose. Then, just last week, I started using “control-d” [...]

The afterlife is a really, really terrifying idea.