Just launched (*), MetaTale . Set out to analyze all bloggyness in Belgium. or something.  Check it out, though their Top 100 can’t be right as it doesn’t include this one!

(*) ok, it seems I’m a bit behind the times, it’s even been published in De Standaard . 

I guess it’s not always as easy as it seems…

It’s now called Pidgin . The reason behind the rename, is as you would expect, legal shite from AOL . It’s a surprise to me the developers had to seek legal support so many times, even ending up forming a "Instant Messaging Freedom Corporation" to take care of the legal issues…

Google’s mapping service produces… well, interesting results. Check step 20 🙂

Yummy 🙂 This is Dedibox ‘s colocation facility. They put 2 Via 2000+ CPU boards in custom 1U rack chassis, and lots and lots of them; and offer el cheapo dedicated servers.

Right after my previous datacenter power loss blogpost … Read this then this 🙂 Save one datacenter, forget the other.

NIKHEF powerdown cause appears to be that they didn’t check the utilisation of their circuits and just blew all the breakers when tripping them. Oops. 

Apparently last month the root servers were attacked. ICANN published a fact sheet about the attacks and root server attacks. Interesting reading.

After the funny master/slave IDE "debacle" , here’s another quite funny article with associated comments 😉

It seemed I wasn’t getting a lot of real mail, but really a lot of spam. When I only saw a few logcheck server log emails coming in, not even as much as there should have been, it began to dawn on me… I checked my SpamAssassin filtering folter and tada… 1800 spam and non-spam mails waiting for me. Hmm, how did that happen? Did SpamAssassin go nuts?

Nah, not at all… While at FOSDEM I hastily entered a filtering rule in my Evolution… Specific header X-Spam-Status contains Yes. Looked fine… checked some emails in the junk folder… X-Spam-Status: No …… BAYES. Ack! Changed contains into starts with, re-filter, all is well. Ooops.

I’d think sub-albums are basic part of any gallery/album software, yet Zenphoto which is supposed to be all-new and web2.0’ish still doesn’t support it after more than a year… how hard can it be? 🙁 Dissapointing…