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Disillusionment is rearing its ugly head.

Generate .htaccess rules with MovableType templates.

I don’t comment on other blogs very often, but when I do I tend to have trouble keeping track of the conversations. MovableType’s threadless comments are hard enough to read as it is without completely forgetting which blogs I’ve visited. Here’s what I propose: since I’m already giving out my URL with every comment, why not [...]

After an excruciating ten day long wait, I finally received all the parts for my new computer. After wrestling with a handicapped onboard bootrom, a harddrive that doesn’t seem to be bootable, and some assorted NFS problems, everything seems to be in order. (Tip: make sure rpc.statd is running on the client.) Ah, the joy [...]

I followed Mark Pilgrim’s lead and set up SpamAssassin tonight, with some help. I’ve actually been pretty lucky in the spam department, with one spam every couple days. Having a dummy account with aliases helps, plus I get to see exactly where people are getting my address from. Here’s the lowdown on my current setup: Mail is [...]

Just placed the orders for my new thin client setup.

In the interest of more accessible and indexable Blogrolling, I use a combination of PHP, cron, and some scripting to avoid the more commonly seen JavaScript route. I thought I’d share with the Googlebot, who seems to be my most frequent visitor, second only to myself. Here’s the script: #!/bin/sh WEBDIR=/var/www/blogs.bwerp.net/htdocs URL="http://rpc.blogrolling.com/display_raw.php" ROLLID="r=11a89b51a86123178572ef64d4d87f02" /usr/bin/curl "${URL}?${ROLLID}" -s \ -o [...]