Dec 29 09:53:09 some-server mysqld[900]: /usr/sbin/mysqld: Disk is full writing ‘/var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.000219′ (Errcode: 28). Waiting for someone to free space… Retry in 60 secs

because, you know, it’s OK to block the boot process (/etc/init.d/mysql hangs) becuase MySQL can’t write to disk, in fact, if your going to do this, make absolutely sure that you startup before […]

Alice’s Restaurant sucks.
In the words of an IMDB comment.
The story was non-existent, characters weak, and relationships confusing. The song is great though. Don’t go out of your way to see this film, you won’t really miss much.
In the end, I suggest you go far out of your way to NOT see this movie. And to […]

Anyone who knows me will find this entirely unsuprising. I tried to upgrade to wordpress 2, I didn’t do a database backup first, I forgot to copy the dark_maple theme to the new wordpress 2 directory and subsequently got very frustrated when wordpress refused to use the dark_maple theme, It doesn’t help that upon logging […]

google blog Atom feed — 72 errors
it’s also using atom .03, which is an obviously deprecieated format.
www.google.com — 47 errors
google news Atom feed — 116 errors — it’s also Atom .03
the google news RSS feed does validate, but with some serious cavets in fact, i’m not sure it really *does* validate, more likely the feed […]

If you accidentally end up inside vi, you can quit it by pressing Escape, colon
(:), q (q), bang (!) and pressing return.

You are a Social Liberal (80% permissive) …

lots of people have asked me for christmas. I want this:

If you can’t swing that you could buy me this instead.
[ via Martini Republic ]

go read the problogger post on 12daily pro and …

this on the Discovery Channel website.
this on…

Once I finally got around to opening up my feed…