Monthly Archives: January 2007

Photo: Duck Grass

Random photo from flickr. A duck sleeping at the San Diego Zoo

Scrobble This: last.fm recent tracks AJAX style

So, I’ve been reading up a bit on prototype.js and its Ajax helpers. It’s an amazing tool and helped me write the bit of info at the top of the page. It’s pretty basic, but here’s the code that does most of the work: function lastfm() { new Ajax.Request(‘/as/recenttracks.xml’, { method: ‘get’, onLoading: function() {

Photo: The Cats Eye

This is Mojo. He enjoys used Q-tips and other various items from the bathroom garbage can. He’s also a sadist.

Photo: Cat Fight (Basil vs. Mojo)

Mojo was incapacitated after the right hook to the noggin. He hasn’t been the same since.

Photo: Echo

This is Echo. He is an Irish Wolf Hound stuck in a Chihuahua’s body. He enjoys (trying to) tackle his big sister and general mayhem. I like to call him Little Napoleon… or snaggle tooth.

Photo: Muggz

This is Muggzy. He likes frozen soy sausages and knows how to open the freezer. He also likes McShitty Poo Biscuits and frequently humps beagles.

Photo: Catseye

This is Mustafa. He’s a cat. He likes long trek’s away from home and canned cat food. Testing out flickr’s blog posting capabilities. Seem to work so far. I had to upgrade Typo in the process (to the svn trunk). ow my flickr side bar doesn’t work, which sucks… ah well. I’m tired. Update OK,

Changing Permalinks In Typo

When I switched from WordPress to Typo, I faced the issue of keeping my WordPress permalinks in Typo. Unfortunately, there’s no simple way of doing this. I noticed the ‘redirects’ table in the database, but I could never get it to realy do anything. So, I had to dig in and find the bit of

Apache2: mod_rewrite vs. mod_proxy

I can’t quite figure this out. I’m trying to write a simple rule to force randys.org to redirect to www.randys.org but it’s not realy working. Of course, I haven’t tried it on a vhost that isn’t proxying request to mongrel. Here’s the rule: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.randys.org$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.randys.org/$1

Typo, Apache & Mongrel, Oh My!

Wow. I’ve been testing the possibility of running Typo on my VPS with the pre-notion that it just wouldn’t work very well. I think I may be wrong. It’s been running for about a week while I tweak some shit and so far, my memory performance has been stable. Of course, thing would probably be