I was knocking about in my httpd.conf today because I noticed that undefined VirtualHosts were being handled by the last VirtualHost entry defined. I can make a ServerAlias *.involution.com, but I only want that to work for everything that’s not defined by other entries. The problem is I have a cadre of other VitrualHosts defined for my domain that I don’t want handled by the main entry. For example, rpm.involution.com is handled by a different VirtualHost entry than the involution.com one with the *.involution.com alias. The other catch is I don’t want malformed domain requests going to an incorrect VirtualHost entry because it borks the logging. The only way I could make this work is by putting the entry with ServerAlias *.involution.com after all of the other VirtualHost entries for involution.com in httpd.conf which makes sense logically. Is this the correct way to handle this scenario or is there an easier way?

Hmmm, the Flickr XP Uploader it appears to work somewhat, but there are some problems. First off, the tags that I add don’t seem to ever be applied. Also, if I add the pictures to a new album, that doesn’t seem to work either e.g. a new album doesn’t get created from the uploader. To top it all off, I tried uploading 109 pictures last night, and it stopped no less than twice which forced me to restart upload from where it left off. Am I the only one having this problem?

Well, I went over to Nuggethaus today because he was having a free empower adapter give-a-way over there at 3:30PM. Apparently, I was late by a few minutes because the place was locked up tight like a squirrel when I got there. I later found out that Nugget was home, but locked away in his vaulted server room provisioning a new OC-192c line and training his cat to walk with little mops on his feet to clean the floor. As I left, I saw a partially completed crossword puzzle on the lawn that I picked up and cross the top it read, “What kind of idiot made this puzzle?”. I thought briefly about what kind of mindset someone would have to be upset by a puzzle. Nugget insists that the crossword was done by his neighbor, Hambone something-or-other. I’m not sure that Hambone really exists.

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I’ve had a del.icio.us account for a while now, but I haven’t thought much about it though because I’m tragically stuck in Web 0.9. However, I’m starting to put links that I find interesting there. You can view my bookmarks or subscribe to the rss feed. Think of it as a micro digg site for insane people.

I can’t stop laughing at this guy. He tells the most absurd stories as if they were undisputable fact. His diary entries contain the most peculiar observations about his daily life like “Went to the beach today. Saw a fat man in the water with a T-shirt on. Asked Suzanne if fat people have to worry about burning more because they have more skin exposed to the Sun. She said she didn’t know in that I-don’t-care-kind-of-way.” And great one off observations like, “If we didn’t invent the aeroplane, we’d have grown wings by now”. Truly genius. Anyone know where I can download episodes 1-7 of the Podcast as they appear to be unavailable from iTunes and the Guardian Unlimited site.

I paid 25 dollars in actual cheddar for the NetNewsWire RSS aggregator on my Powerbook. It’s pretty much the most Appleriffic feed aggregator on the planet. My one month trial was up yesterday, and I was really jonesing to see what was going on in the world of Intraweb irrelevance, but I couldn’t. So, I ponied up the 25 clams over to RancheroSoft. This is the second piece of software that I’ve purchased for the Mac. The first was the venerable Textmate. I’m just speculating here, but the third and fourth pieces of software that Imma buy is iLife and iWork ‘06 when I get around to it.

I just added some new exciting entries into my blogroll. First off, it’s the Idlewords blog from Maciej Ceglowski. Maciej writes giant posts about the Space Shuttle, travelling to Iceland, and running the New York Marathon. Next up, it’s Why The Lucky Stiff. Doppler says that this guy is 10 times more like me than I am. I have to agree. I need to start trying a little harder. Next up, it’s PragDave who is the author of the Ruby Pick Axe book. Another blog I’ve been getting into is the interviewee from last week’s Ruby on Rails Podcast, Glenn Vanderburg Glenn talks about Metaprogramming and may be the only blog that I subscribe to that runs the Python-based blosxom package. I actually messed around with blosxom in 2004, but I couldn’t love it for some reason. Blosxom just reads your file system and uses the last modified times as the post dates. It’s super easy to use, and you edit your posts using a text editor rather than a web form which is really a neat idea… The topics are under a hierarchical view, and I think you can even throw code and pdfs in there too and have them be posts. Another feed you don’t want to miss is my Flickr feed. I can even post pictures to it from my mobile phone.