Luckymonkey

• writing Java after writing PHP for so long is like taking a warm bath with a *good* friend.. #
• a *good* friend who is so disappointed in how lazy (and fat) you have become over the years #
• http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/21.html #
• http://www.neurostechnology.com/ - Neuros OSD, just a great looking device #

• Acid 3 test - top 2 browsers are Safari http://tinyurl.com/2o8r8z #
• http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001072.html #
• http://tinyurl.com/35zboq #

• http://tinyurl.com/ysnfyn #
• http://tinyurl.com/396eg7 #
• http://tinyurl.com/259fsc #
• http://tinyurl.com/3xdnd3 #

• Making 404s (more) useful http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000819.html #

• Insignia photo frame virus - a trojan designed to steal gaming passwords :s #
• vBulletin has proved to me that all forum software obeys TAAN #
• http://tinyurl.com/22zd3y - Still alive, Still alive.. still… alive #

Really strange problem with vBulletin on one of the forums I look after today. MySQL ran out of available connections (even to the root user), and the site ground to a halt. Quick reboot of the server so I could get in, and SHOW PROCESSLIST showed me loads and loads and loads of threads trying to retrieve data from the datastore tables..

Something like

SELECT title,data FROM datastore WHERE title IN (’cron’,'forumcache’,..)

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• Got to love those wordpress plugins http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress #

• Wondering what it is about Warhawk which makes it so compelling.. #

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Ok - a stock cam in one piece arrived (hurrah), so we set about fitting it to the racecar. At the moment, we haven’t taken the step of removing the head to replace the springs - because we’ll need to change the head gasket, get new head bolts etc etc - so this is just how to change the cam (with pictures).

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