Great meal at Providence

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Last night we had a delicious and amazing dinner, celebrating Amber’s 27th birthday, at Providence.
It was a ‘5×5 Chefs Collaborative’, meaning 5 local chefs (and 1 guest chef, Alex Stratta) hung out together and handled one course each.
They gave us a menu to take home that I’ve attached. All the chefs signed it, which was [...]

Managing volatile files with puppet

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

I’m managing Linux HA (heartbeat2) from Puppet and I had a problem.
There is a file called ‘cib.xml’ used by heartbeat which I needed to manage. For a variety of boring reasons, when you make changes to this file, you must have a number in it which is the highest the
app has ever seen.
To make things [...]

Wordpress Plugins and external services

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

I noticed this blog was slow from time to time, and decided to do a bit of investigation.
That took the form of a very very sweet hack that I will publish at a later date, but for now I’ll just share some of the results.
In the sidebar I am using pretty standard WordPress plugins to [...]