Colour Lovers

January 30th, 2006

Colour for me is an annoyance, I know what goes together, but can’t actually make them up. It normally takes me ages trialing hex values to get something that doesn’t look awful, even in primary school I was always the one who mixed so much together that my palette more often than not ended up […]

Heartbreak Hotel

January 27th, 2006

Forget about Mozart: Heartbreak Hotel was released exactly 50 years ago today. Can’t beat the older Elvis songs; Scotty Moore!

Hey now, if your baby leaves you,
And you got a tale to tell.
Just take a walk down lonely street
To heartbreak hotel.

Uh huh hurr, thankyer very much.

Logrotate: Does what it says on the tin

January 24th, 2006

Linux has powerful logging capabilities that can be invaluable when diagnosing a problem, but when left unchecked can amount to a sizeable amount of your hard disk being consumed. How big? Well when I was starting out with Linux a couple of years ago, I didn’t know that such detailed logfiles were being stored; so […]