The Temple of the Mighty Bague

Well, there’s a turnip for the books. Last couple of days, I’ve twittered a random lyric that I’d either been listening to or just popped into my head. Imagine my surprise when I started getting TONS of feedback from people who either liked the lyric and wanted to know the song, hated it, or anything in between. So, I thought to myself, I could do a lot worse than just blat a fave lyric on here once a day. Shouldn’t be too difficult. So, without further ado:

“You’re one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan,
Designed and directed by his red right hand.”

- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, “Red Right Hand”

This is either the most loltastic lolcat EVER or the most terrifying thing since The Grudge.

I don’t often repeat internet memes in a public place, but I felt I had to make an exception for this one.

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Ok, so I have a couple of Solaris LDOMs running on a big über-core SPARC T5240. I also have a pile of old E220s, Netras and 450s running an Oracle based webapp that I’m migrating to LDOMs as a proof of concept.

Except they’re on separate networks and the gateway is a little linux box. Annoyingly, when I try to blatt 13Gb of data from one of the netras over to the T5240, though, the gateway box mysteriously loses its routing tables half way through the transfer and one of the ipaliases vanishes.

It’s a bit annoying.

So, I’ve had a backlog of podcasts to listen to for a while now, on a wide range of different subjects. Well, thanks to roadworks on the way to work, I’ve finally caught up with them all. So, I thought, I’m going to have a wee look in the iTunes podcast directory and see if there’s a couple more I can subscribe to, just for a change.

Oh dear god.

Like the interweb, podcast land (I daresay some anal wag has already christened it ‘podosphere’ or something equally vacuous, but I’ll let ‘podcast land’ stand for now) seems to be utterly overrun with, well, drek.

It seems that putting together a podcast and setting up the appropriate RSS feed is so easy now that WORLD+DOG is doing it. And they’re about the weirdest things! Macrame! How in god’s name can you talk about macrame?

I’m seriously considering hitching my wagon beside WORLD+DOG and doing my own podcast. I have nothing to say, very few interests that anyone else would be interested in, no broadcasting talent whatsoever, so I think that makes me eminently qualified to make one.

I could call it shitecast. Or vapidcast. Or - getting right down to it - maybe just Egocast.