Author: Vic Cross

Santa came to Nicholas' day-care centre today.  All the Junior Kindy kids were very excited about Santa being there -- until it was their turn to sit with him!  Nicholas' reaction was (I have to say, even though it's terrible to do so) hilarious...  He was joyously watching the other kids getting their presents, but when his name … Continue reading Nicholas’ visit from Santa

I'm sure you've heard people say that they were never concerned about "whatever" until it touched their life in some way.  Our family had a first-hand reminder of that last night -- my mum was mugged last night on her way home from work.  I'm sure she would have liked a less violent way to get her … Continue reading Safety?

I had a funny problem with my Cacti installation the other day -- all the graphs were missing the last hour.  The system was doing updates correctly, but new data was being entered onto the graph at "T-minus-one-hour".The first thing I thought of was a problem caused by daylight savings (the state of Queensland doesn't observe … Continue reading Timezone in PHP

Susan and I celebrated our tenth wedding anniversary yesterday.  Yay for us!

Susan bought a new desk the other day, one she'd had her eye on for quite a while.  She bought it from one of those modern flat-pack furniture shops (no, not the Swedish one) and paid a tidy sum for it.  To say we're disappointed with the result is a mild understatement -- but the whole experience … Continue reading How much should you have to pay for quality?

My TOE last week showed clear -- no PFO!  So now the guessing-game continues as to what (if anything specific) causes me to have these heart issues.  While it's a bit tedious that the testing has to go on, it is good to know I don't have a hole in my heart!

I saw the cardiologist during the week.  While the outlook is far from grim, there is a chance that I have one of the "hole-in-the-heart" conditions.  I'm to have a test next week called a transoesophageal echocardiogram or TOE (TEE for American readers, since oesophagus starts with 'e' up there).A TOE involves me swallowing an ultrasound transducer … Continue reading Health update

The GCC/glibc update on the desktop system did eventually finish.  At each point it had stopped, I noted what it failed on so I could go back later.  Once I fixed the dependency that was causing everything to fail, I could re-emerge those packages that failed first time around.In case you're curious, the reason for the failure … Continue reading Gentoo Games, part two

It's bothered me for some time that I was unable to host SSL on more than one domain.  And the structure of the directories in my web server was not appealing to me.  So I decided to rearrange some things -- with varying levels of success.I relocated directories for a couple of the internal webapps I run.  This … Continue reading Web site Fun