Stut.net

I’ll take the position
assume the missionary part
you work by committee
you had me pegged from the start.
I’ll be pounce pony
phony maroney
pony before the cart.
I’ll be pounce pony.
this ceremony
only fills my heart.

who cast the final stone?
who threw the crushing blow?
someone has to take the fall
why not me?
a punch toy volunteer
a weakling on its knee.
is all you want [...]

It’s 5am and I can’t sleep. When this happens I usually fire up Boxee and find something to watch, so that’s what I did. I was happy to see that since the last time I used it Boxee appear to have added a bunch more internet sources, which is great. However, the following 15 minutes [...]

Twitter promised OAuth support a l-o-o-ong time ago, and it would appear to finally be here. Alex Payne sent a “Call for OAuth beta participants” to the developers list yesterday and had an overwhelming response. This predictably triggered a deluge of tweets and blog posts, but the one that caught my eye was on ReadWriteWeb [...]

In my opinion this is a major curse on the internet today and it’s usually large corporations who “don’t understand” that do it, but in this case it’s a supposedly modern internet-based company, gocompare.com.
The problem is requiring more information from the user than you actually need to perform an action. In this case it’s unsubscribing [...]

This is really daft. It’s been widely covered recently that the BBC iPlayer service is taking off in a big way which is great news for the future of TV. Unfortunately some ISPs are throwing their toys out of the pram and complaining that the increased bandwidth usage is costing them a lot of money [...]

Not having much luck with the blog these days.
Easily took over 3 weeks to change the nameservers on the domain record for stut.net. In the meantime the servers that were running the old nameservers were taken offline. The result… stut.net dropped off the net, both webwise and email.
I’m not happy and will be going through [...]

Weird one. For some reason today Wordpress decided to develop some parse errors. Not sure what happened, but I’ve installed a fresh copy with no plugins or themes (hence the lovely default design).
It’s kinda pointless me doing the work to get it back to where it was since I have some pretty big changes to [...]

I’ve disabled the link dumper from del.icio.us. It’s a great feature but my other posts are getting lost. I’ll be putting together a new site for links but until I do you can see my bookmarks on my del.icio.us page.

In a message to the php-general mailing list, someone named Jan Reiter made a frightening statement…
But if it’s a rented server, apache overhead isn’t your concern, so go on and let your provider worry about it!
As someone who runs a shared hosting provider this comment made me cringe. I’m assuming that by “rented [...]

Note that this is a re-post because it happened again (d’oh!). Sorry Evan, I lost your comment – feel free to post it again.
Well that was annoying. The server this blog (and stut.net) is on suffered a minor (ahem) issue. Basically the filesystem got corrupted, and what with RAID being as reliable as it is [...]