Author: Devon
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Iguana Dreams and Shiny Things
Last night I dreamt that I was walking through a large castle/resort, carrying Fifi, and letting her swim across the many pools which were in most of the rooms I was passing through. She was very happy. There was also some parts with giant oddly shaped alligators and a Great White shark, which was swimming…
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Firefox, xhtml, JBoss 4.2.0, JSF, and Google Ads
I upgraded the JBoss instance on my server just over a week ago from 4.0.5 to 4.2.0. Two things happened after that: Firstly, my google adsense revenue dropped by half, secondly I was contacted by two different people who were having some e-mails show a big error in Firefox, instead of showing up correctly. I…
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Spinning Class
My wonderful wife dragged me to a 8:30 AM (on a Saturday!!!!) gym session with our trainer, followed by the hour long spinning class he runs. A few observations: I didn’t know there WAS an 8:30 AM on Saturdays. I sort of figured Saturdays just started up around 11 or so. I didn’t know they…
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How to cleanout your postfix queues by sender
This post is mostly to help me remember how to do this, if the situation arises again. I just had a lot of mail backup on my server. The 10MinuteMail inbox was over 300 MB (usually it kept below a megabyte), Postfix’s active queue was maxed out at 20,003 entries (why the 3, I don’t…
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Java One ’07
I went to my first Java One this year. I was shocked by the sheer size of the event. Thousands upon thousands of people in the Moscone Center. Each session typically held hundreds of people. I wish the sessions had been a little smaller and a little more personal, but I think with the size…
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Welcome
This is a new blog, replacing my rarely used custom-built journal. Hopefully I’ll post here more often:) As you can probably tell, I’ve completely redesigned and re-layed-out my site. Hopefully the new look will be easier to navigate and use. Let me know what you like about it and what you dislike. Or just leave…