Archive for December, 2006

I had a long post written up about the execution of Saddam Hussein. I decided at the last minute to not click the "Submit" button. But, my friend Niran wrote up an eloquent post that says it much more clearly. One thing I'd add is this: I'm truly curious about the proportion of the American... »

I'm running a couple of servers full of Drupal sites hosted in a multisite configuration (one copy of Drupal used to host dozens of sites, each with their own sites/sitename directory. I'd been using sympal_scripts to automatically run Drupal's cron.php script for each site in order to keep search indexes up to date and... »

Just got a funny automated email from Skype, reminding me to use up my Skype credits before they expire. But I've used up my credits long, long ago... Hi there dlnorman , It appears that you haven't used any of your Skype Credit for a while now. Skype expires inactive credit balances and you have 30 days... »

This was 2006, at a glance. I picked one photo from each month, with a bonus one for December (there were 13 slots...) »

Yeah. My head's in Maui. Sue me :-) »

For a project I'm involved with, we're setting up a shiny new server to handle hosting of lots (and lots) of Drupal sites in a shared hosting environment. We were able to pick up a decently speced Dell PowerEdge 2950 at a really good price. Dell wanted a tonne of cash to pre-install RedHat... »

Holy crap! D'Arcy Norman dot net is listed in the EdTechPost Top 12 Edublogs list! That's so freaking awesome. Thank you so much! I would like to also thank all of the little people (you know who you are) who helped me make this milestone possible. It's things like this that make blogging worth all... »

I just tried to file my GST payment for the quarter, using the GST Netfile website. I figured it'd be the easiest way to do it, with the whole process taking maybe 5 minutes. I'm trying to be a responsible little consultant, filing proper papers and paying The Man to let me do it. But,... »

I give up. I'm turning this blog into a Flickr Fave Stream. It's pretty easy to tell where my head's been lately. Well, ok. Maybe I'll be posting more actual, non-Flickr-Fave posts after the Christmas break... »

Dang. I got tagged with the Five Things Meme a couple days ago, but procrastinated on responding. Then, I just got tagged again. Better play before the tags build up... So, five little-known things about me. Without feeding identity thieves, hopefully... I'm not a programmer. I suck as a programmer. I'm a total hack. I know... »