Me Blog!

Now that things have finally settled down I can finally get around to getting a lot of the things I had planned for my summer holidays done. First up was to try to aggregate all my online presences from Twitter, Flickr Last.FM etc. I was considering using FriendFeed but since I’ve recently been extolling the [...]

I’ve just had 7 IP addresses from Verizon crawl through almost every page on my domain. That is blog.sweetnam.eu, tech.sweetnam.eu, www.sweetnam.eu and sweetnam.eu. A total of 5368 requests, in 3 hours! Odd things is that none of the IPs in question were typical crawlers as each IP requested an entire page at a time. Given [...]

Over the weekend I was in conversation via e-mail with The Other Fellow. Over the course of our correspondence I mentioned my setup here at home. Later on that evening I began to realise just how ludicrous my setup has become. I have four different networks, three wireless access points, and an unearthly amount of [...]

I think I have finally had enough of the festive cheer. Combined with the fact I still have almost three weeks holidays left I think I have gone a bit mad. I was clearing out my computer room and came across an old PC that served me well in the past. It was a faithful [...]

In the normal run of things I rank Adobe Flash as one of the most hateful creations in the history of the planet, universe or whatever. Strangely my next most hateful creation is Adobe Acrobat Reader. Coincidence? Mind you, every now and then something comes along to remind you that maybe Adobe Flash is not [...]

As I will be off to college on Monday I won’t have anywhere near a fraction of the time that I used to for messing about with all my various servers here. I figured it would make a lot more sense to consolidate my various sites onto the one machine if at all possible. So [...]

I’ve been on and on about using Squid as a reverse proxy that at times it must seem that I’m bordering on being completely obsessed with it. Well I suppose that is partly true. The performance boost that it can deliver is staggering and to get an idea of how well it performs look no further [...]

Some of you may be aware of the setup that I have here at home that dishes this blog and several other sites out onto the world wild web. I have probably an overly complicated setup in which I have no less than 3 backend servers with a Squid Proxy server acting as the front [...]