The Mac had just one update today. 700MB of v10.7.4 Lion updated goodness. The update was supposed to contain the Safari update, but the first thing the Mac did after rebooting from the Lion update was trigger an update for Safari; maybe that was the designed process. It seems the only visible change is that my tweaked background for the login page was reverted to the grey slate of the default Lion. Now to find the bit I wrote about how to do that again...and maybe to find a new splash image.

It seems the new Squid proxy server listens on a different port. Although it started up, it wasn't responding to client requests. A quick configuration change and all was fixed.

Reuters shared a story that the recent bust of a would-be suicide bomber is actually an insider for the CIA (indirectly, they imply).

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Although the upgrade said it would take more than a day to download and install everything, it only took a little more than two hours. In the end, there were only three little snafus. The compiled-from-source PHP needed to be recompiled to link to the new MySQL client libraries. While running, one of the Tomcat servers didn't start right; restarting it brought everything to normal. And the new Squid proxy didn't start on its own; a quick "start squid3" and it runs as expected.

Other than that, all went slick. The apps are running again, as evidenced by this blog (which runs on Apache, using PHP and MySQL).

The server wants to upgrade to the latest LTS release. I'm gonna let it try, even though it'll probably break everything I've built from source.

Wish me luck. (If you can read this...it worked...or isn't done yet and hasn't been completely broken...)

The Twins just played their 16th game this season. With 162 scheduled, that's about 10%. There's the old adage that says "you'll win 50 games and lose 50 games; it's what you do with the rest of them that counts." (I tried to find the original quote, but Google didn't help much.)

Let's see what the Twins have done with their first ten percent of the season, shall we? If we take ten percent of the 50/50/rest adage, let's see what happens if we remove five wins and losses. The Twins record is currently 5-11, so our subtraction makes them 0-6. They aren't doing very well with their other games.

It is still early in the season, but this isn't a very good trend.

For the more traditional, they're five games back from the division-leading Tigers, with a four-game span after the third-place Indians. It is a tight race at the top, with the Indians only a game behind the Tigers, and the White Sox splitting that difference. At least the Twins aren't in last place; they're a game-and-a-half ahead of the Royals. Hopefully this isn't a swing through the bottom of the division for a while, like the Twins struggled with in the '90's.

I want to jot this down before I forget how I did it. I haven't cycled through the implications of the following, so use at your own risk.

I'm working on a project where some assets aren't available when I run the web app from my local machine. Sadly, the norm is then that when the app is run from the server, it can't use resources from my machine...or can it?

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