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Monthly Archives: November 2008
Charity’s social payoff
Well, I’m off to a fun-packed evening of “Frog Racing” in aid of my son’s school. What I don’t understand is this. Why? I’m not questioning the merits of raising money so the school association can do interesting things for … Continue reading
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Redirecting apache command line output on Windows
So, you want to run httpd.exe -tS to syntax check your conf file and view all virtual hosts. You need the virtual hosts info in a file but httpd.exe -tS >file.txt doesn’t work. That’s because apache output goes to STDERR … Continue reading
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Sleep deprivation and KraftWerk
So, I go to bed late and plan to begin work today at a respectable 9am. Usually I consider myself very fortunate to live so close (15 mins drive) to the office. But this brings with it key holder responsibilities … Continue reading
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Toothpaste Art
To my youngest two children, twin 3 year old boys. Toothpaste is not paint. The bathroom is white enough. Toothpaste is not glue, no matter how well it appears to function in this regard. Toothpaste is not a lubricant. Doors … Continue reading
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It’s Christmas. Well, nearly.
Well, it feels like it anyway. There was a certain nip in the air tonight. A Yuletide chill you might call it. A definite yet undefinable feeling that Christmas is upon us. On my way into the DIY store the … Continue reading
WordPress Suddenly Slow – Check your DNS resolution
So, in recent weeks I have “discovered” and enthusiastically embraced WordPress. I’m now hosting several blogs. But a couple of days ago I setup a new blog. Same apache config as the others, same server, same WordPress version, no themes … Continue reading
Barack Obama wins presidency of USA
I feel buoyed this morning by the news that Obama is to become president. Strange. I’m not sure why I am so interested. Perhaps it’s just age, perhaps parenthood but I do detect within myself a modest amount of anticipation … Continue reading
Can’t create TCP/IP socket (10106)
This post may help some other Windows/Apache/Mod-fcgid users out. We recently migrated a windows 2000 Apache install to a Windows Server 2003 box. Despite having all the mysql libs, the pho_sockets module etc configured php kept failing to connect to … Continue reading