Printers: a purchase you never stop buying
There was a time when having a laser printer was a big deal. At that time, printer companies used to make a big deal over how long the printer could…
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And now the server load is back to normal
From what I could tell, it was a series of bots making repeated requests for the wordpress pages of one of my hosting clients. I hardened both the Wordpress site,…
Someone or something is hammering my server
Normal load level is around 0.9 or something like that. As you can see in this picture, it's up around 56 now. That means for every one request the server…
Power Workers Union caught astroturfing
I believe PWU official John Sprackett when he tells Postmedia that social media is new territory for the PWU. It's a plausible form of denial given how bad unions are…
Web hosting: I miss the bad old days
At least when it comes to website serving. There was a time when I had my production web server in my basement and I bought bandwidth from upstream to allow…
Smell ya later MSIE
For the first time ever last week the number of Firefox visitors to my blog exceeded the number of Internet Explorer visitors. By less than three per cent admittedly, and…
You know, some people hate Mondays. I don’t
I figure I have a whole five days to get further ahead in all the stuff I'm supposed to be doing. And there's a lot, admittedly. But I'm feeling optimistic…
This post is a vehicle for cute kid pictures
Mallory and I went out in search of haircuts this afternoon. Offered an hour wait for the annointed barbershop, we walked back down the road to the stylists place -…
Sending good vibes to my former colleagues
I am really hoping that the negotiators for my former colleagues can reach a fair settlement with their employer this weekend. As my wonderful, hardworking and ravishingly beautiful partner still…
Something called fseventsd is slowing my computer to a crawl
Apparently it's the file system events daemon. It records the comings and goings of the machine's hard disks to a log. Somewhere. This all seems well and good. But are…
Relief. Now… what’s next
So a very kind audience. Quick learners and fairly enthusiastic about the project. And very tolerant of the anglo talking at them in Torontois for six hours.
Almost bedtime so worry some more about french
I’m taking the train to Montréal tomorrow morning (thing leaves at 6:30) to do a day’s worth of training (in french) on how to use our new spiffy content management…
Where’s the peak of Silver Peak
Someone posted a comment on my recent trip report wondering where indeed is the highest point in Silver Peak. Apparently there used to be a fire tower on top of…
Busy week up ahead
I have two days to prepare both the documentation on and the actual product I'm meant to be delivering training on. In french. In Montréal. I’m quite nervous. But I…
A whole lotta mushroom
I noticed it in the dark as I drove up to my dad's place last night around 11:30pm. It's huge. About the size of a basketball. A puffball. I took…
Whirlwind visit to Alton
So I got a call from the car repair place. The car was ready. So I beetled home threw some stuff in a bag and hit the road. And I’ll…
Killarney Park: to Silver Peak and back via Three Narrows
I have posted my usual report on the canoe trip my friend Martin and I took last weekend. This year we went to Killarney Park. Martin had never been so…
$90K a day for Deloitte? How much of a bargain?
I share the outrage of much of the sane universe over the Harper government's decision to hire Deloitte and Touche (at $90,000 per day) to tell the Tory cabinet how…
Strike breaking legislation: from premature to preemptive
I don't know what's in the deal reached today between CUPE's Air Canada Component and the company. I'm guessing, since Lisa Raitt said the union would not be allowed to…
Back from Killarney
I'll have a full report soon, but I wanted to say re-bonjour to the internet after my server also decided to take the weekend off. I'm looking into the causes…