Welcome to my humble abode
Hello. If you’ve been here before you’ll have noticed that I’ve changed things a bit; moved the furniture around, repainted the skirting boards, stripped the old wallpaper and removed the artex from the ceiling. Hope you like it. I’ve gone for a much simpler, more stripped-back look-and-feel this time around. I’m not interested in having [...]
If this works
Then this site has finally been updated to be compatible with Django 1.0.2. Let joy be unconfined. Edit: Okay, almost everything worked. Fixed now.
If you’re seeing this…
… then the DNS records have propagated correctly and your RSS feed reader is now slurping from the new grahambinns.com server, which is just hunky dory as far as I’m concerned. I’ve been working on this version of things for a while. Besides a re-skin – which taught me a lot about how I should [...]
Odds and ends
Back from Dublin, having had a blast, natch. May post photos later if I find any that I really like (I've discovered that manually focussing in very low light is not easy, but if done right is worth the results). The webserver's been up and down like a bride's nightgown whilst I've been away, so [...]
Things change
In amongst all the programming (for money), programming (for free), writing a second novel (still not convinced that I'm actually doing that yet but it's a nice journal so I better flaming had be), amateur photography, sleeping, eating and having a life that I seem to be doing at the moment, I'm in the mood [...]
In passing
I have much that I want to blog about but I've had less than eight hours sleep in the last two days and it's making things a bit blurry about now. I will get round to the bit about religion and how it can cause problems in conversation. And now I think I'll shut my [...]
Servermachine bilong Graham gone buggerup
RAID5 is quite reliable as disk arrays go. So I can understand why having two disks in a five-disk array fail on Thursday morning took my hosts, Servelocity, somewhat by surprise. Which is the quick way of saying exactly what happened to the site over the last four-and-a-bit days. There, that was painless, wasn't it? [...]
Oh look, a website!
Massive server outage over the weekend, will explain later. At the moment I'm just glad to see that nothing important is borked.
Ihn verbieten!
This tickles me a bit. The headline, especially. Germany imposes ban on Tom Cruise (BBC) Germany has banned the makers of Tom Cruise's new movie from filming at military sites in the country because the actor is a Scientologist. In other news, my remote feed (Twitter, Flickr, etc.) aggregator thingumy appears to be buggered. Ho [...]
Now with go-faster stripes
Thanks all to those people (two, count them) who let me know about the odd site slowdown. My bad; turns out there was a huge-assed query running on every pageload that really didn't need to be there. Excising that and doing a bit of judicious caching has sped things up considerably. And now, back to [...]
Finally
Looks like we're up-and-running. Bon. The DNS propogation took longer than I expected, partly because the update didn't go out until 9:30 GMT, which I'd managed to not notice. Anyway, seems like everything works (for the time being at least), so I'll call it a win. There are still a couple of tweaks that I [...]
If you can see this
Then the transition worked and you're now viewing a post from the all new grahambinns.com. Come have a look around. If you find any bugs, please report them at trac.grahambinns.com/newticket. Cheers, Graham
