~sgerrand /home/sasha.gerrand.id.au/

Ran­dall Stross has a dis­turb­ing ana­lysis of the text mes­saging pri­cing struc­ture over at the NYT[1].
[1] http://ping.fm/wkUUs

While this is a ana­lysis of the US telco SMS stack, it’s pretty applic­able to the Aus­tralian gang of four as well. An inter­est­ing (and some­what dis­turb­ing) read.

It’s Monday morn­ing, and I am still recov­er­ing from the Ele­fant Trax 10 year anniversary party. Massive night, awe­some tunes and a wicked vibe throught the area.

One of the best Aus­tralian hip hop nights that I’ve ever been to, so big up to the ET crew.

Look­ing for­ward to the next one next decade!

Glory, glory hal­le­lu­jah. You can now design your own Mup­pet in the US via FAO Schwartz.

http://ping.fm/rROcF

The pricetag ($USD90) is pretty reas­on­able too.

Appar­ently one of my employer’s coloca­tion data cen­ters has nearly all of its employ­ees off today — who would have thought the US elec­tion would be so pop­u­lar in Australia?

saludos, dia de los meur­tos. ironic that the food and wine fest­ival is on today in hyde park, of course.

Kid Koala’s new site is up http://nufonia.com/

Thanks to Adam’s cus­tom ker­nel grabbed from http://ping.fm/gllx0 I’m now run­ning Xubuntu on my Eee PC. Boom Xfce4! Actu­ally glad that I went for the non solid state HDD model too. I’ve kept the machine in a dual OS boot (Windows/Linux) for the moment, mainly to keep the work and ran­dom inter­net­ting modes (a bit) separate.

“The great thing about mod_rewrite is it gives you all the con­fig­ur­ab­il­ity and flex­ib­il­ity of Send­mail. The down­side to mod_rewrite is that it gives you all the con­fig­ur­ab­il­ity and flex­ib­il­ity of Send­mail.” — Brian Behlendorf’s quote still rings true, even after 8+ years with heavy use of mod_rewrite.

debtakeover was not quite as help­ful as I’d envis­aged it would be. Los­ing glibc on a remote box is gen­er­ally as bad as it gets.