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I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it.

 

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Recent Posts

  • More Munin Monitoring Madness   share   6 weeks 1 day ago  

    Another quick Munin monitor script, this time for drupal 6 (since it works on the database itself, YMMV and who knows if it works on drupal7.)
  • NoSQL, Drupal. Drupal major upgrade. Modules. Modules Modules.   share   7 weeks 4 days ago  

    In the last major chunk of work I did for Nokia, I was working with mongodb (one of the crop of NoSQL document stores popping up like mushrooms in the fall in New England) and, despite some serious warts, I was impressed with the value of an unstructured schemaless data store when working on a fluid prototype. I've been thinking ever since that drupal's data store would be a natural fit for something like mongodb. I wasn't alone.
  • Powershell and Perf Counters - oh bother!   share   10 weeks 3 days ago  

    As part of the new reality of working for Microsoft, I'm learning all the Microsoft ways of doing things. I'm in an Operations group doing very large operational things. The intersection of these two lines of thought are PowerShell and Perf Counters.
  • Munin monitoring... for Windows, for Embedded devices, for great justice!   share   10 weeks 4 days ago  

    I use Munin to monitor stuff on the home network. Recently, I added a couple monitors - one is a simple web scrape for the new Boxee box that replaced the dedicated HTPC running GBPVR, the other for a Win7 VM (running under Virtual Box on my Ubuntu server, just like the CentOS image that drives this Drupal blog...) needed to run the Boxee Media Manager and also to stream content to the Xbox.
  • Captain's Log: Supplemental   share   12 weeks 4 days ago  

    Just in case anyone reads this blog (doubtful) but isn't connected to me on LinkedIn, I've recently changed jobs. This follows a pattern for me of a long stint with a company, followed by a brief transitionary company, and then (hopefully, because I'm really liking this new role) a long relationship with a company. Sorry, Nokia, you were my rebound company.
  • Viewsonic gtablet - the best little crappy Android tablet, ever.   share   28 weeks 3 days ago  

    Viewsonic rebranded a first generation Tegra2 Android tablet from Malat (the Zpad, more or less) and slapped a horrible version of Android on it.
  • Twitter feed in Drupal   share   34 weeks 4 days ago  

    Twitter in Drupal. It works. Simple. Well, sorta.
  • GPS tracks. iPhone. NMEA Data. Yes, you can   share   35 weeks 18 hours ago  

    Why would you want NMEA logs from your iPhone? Well... it's a GPS. And you have it. And sometimes NMEA logs are handy...
  • News From The Employed   share   1 year 6 days ago  

    Well, hello there. You may have noticed that the blog content is stale. A post a year just isn't enough, is it?
  • Apple iPad - iCan't believe iDidn't see it coming   share   2 years 13 hours ago  

    It's finally here. It's amazing. It's astounding. It's - uh, pretty much what you would expect

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John's recent Tweets

  • @marcmaron just a mention for you... to brighten your day :) — 4 days 14 hours ago
  • @SentientBeingTM sure anything is possible, sadly. — 5 weeks 2 days ago
  • New post: More Munin Monitoring Madness http://t.co/PI56hWm — 6 weeks 1 day ago
  • Hey, look at that... so, something broke in the new twitter module update. Will need to investigate. Yay for drush making a backup — 7 weeks 4 days ago
  • New post: NoSQL, Drupal. Drupal major upgrade. Modules. Modules Modules. http://t.co/2HUkLQJ — 7 weeks 4 days ago

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It used to be a Dell PowerEdge 400sc but she's finally given up the ghost. After that it was a Hewlett Packard xw4400x. Now its a custom built box - core i7, 8gb ram on a Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD4 motherboard, in an Antec Sonata III case. Four cores of goodness!

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