Handy guide for getting PHP working under NGINX. Needed this page though to get the fastcgi_params file.

Irish Life & Permanent is consolidating 550 servers into a virtualisation strategy. Management, CAPEX and support costs cited as well as carbon emissions. Good stuff. §

“there is no such thing as information overload, there’s only filter failure, right” ~ Clay Shirky interview. I see many filter-fu practitioners on Twitter §

Google showing current Cricket match scores when searching for Cricket terms. §

Start-ups down 21% in 2008 thanks to construction and finance. Energy start-ups up by 30% though. §

Little Sis is an interesting “involuntary social network.”

An Eircom chap is having a ball with music piracy in the high courts. “‘piracy’ is a loaded term. Could we say ‘sharing‘- ‘piracy’ implies there’s something wrong with it. ” §

Big update to Ubiquity. Spotlight/Quicksilver for Firefox, worth using. §

Balloon animal sex. NSFW if your workplace has no humour. §