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Wednesday, September 19 2001

A couple of years ago, I painted buildings.

I imagined them lumbering across the landscape, like some kind of giant, mutant snail-train. They would leaving a wake of whatever that stuff is that comes out of a skyscraper's ventilation system. I have no point, really. Only just that I remembered this when I came across the picture that a friend had sent by email, last Tuesday, when no one knew what was happening.

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Never mind "It happened (n) years ago today",

Aaronland is proud to introduce (the proof-of-concept version) What was I thinking?!. This graph charts the number of posts per category across the history of this weblog. It should be noted that early posts were added before there was a category system to tag them with; most have not been updated since. Lots still to do. Enjoy.

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Ave Wrigley : App::Control.pm

"is a simple module to replicate the kind of functionality you get with apachectl to control apache, but for any script or executable. There is a very simple OO interface, where the constructor is used to specify the executable, command line arguments, and pidfile, and various methods (start, stop, etc.) are used to control the executable in the obvious way."

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FreeBSD Diary : "NetSaint is a network monitor.

You can use it to keep close tabs on your routers, printers, computers, and services. NetSaint can watch monitor various services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP) to make sure they keep running. It can ping boxes to make sure they are still up. ... If also allows you to create your own plugins if you so wish."

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is quagmire

| source : web1913 | Quagmire \Quag"mire`\, n. [Quake + mire.] Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the feet. ``A spot surrounded by quagmires, which rendered it difficult of access.'' --Palfrey. Syn: Morass; marsh; bog; swamp; fen; slough. | source : wn | quagmire n : a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot [syn: {mire}, {morass}]

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Tuesday, September 18 2001 ←  → Thursday, September 20 2001