i want to get serious about blogging about technical matters again. to that end, i've removed the flash banner ads and popups from the tech pages, and i may give the look of this section an overhaul. or perhaps i will move all this code-y stuff to a different domain.
we'll see!
i have disabled the bloglines blogroll in the sidebar because it was taking forever to load.
instead, i will probably export my bloglines subscriptions periodically and manually insert it into the sidebar.
in unrelated news, i should rework this custom theme so that the blog content comes first in the HTML. right now the sidebar comes first, which i don't like…
i have to remember to switch all of my old CVS projects over to subversion sometime, the sooner the better (i already have new projects in subversion, and i much prefer it to CVS). it'll have to be after i finish working on this major branch, though… *wrestles with CVS branching and merging*…
i am now using bloglines' share-your-subscriptions feature to handle my blogroll over there on the right-hand side of this blog. their script doesn't use lists, alas, but rather just a series of <div>s. i had to use some silly CSS to approximate the look of the lists (most notably the use of a background image for the bullets).
(all one one line)
ps ax -o "vsize" -U www | tail -n +2 | awk '{sum=sum+$1;printf("sum: %d\n", sum)}' | tail -1
displays the total memory used (virtual mem, in 1024-byte blocks) by all processes owned by the user 'www', as reported by ps. i think that's right anyway.
do the same with "rss" instead of "vsize" to get real memory use (also in 1K-blocks).
i'm sure there's an easier way to do this. please share if anyone knows 
from an irc chat with dlb:
<bunnyhero> i need to get over my fear of not contributing anything new to the discussion
<dlb> yeah, and serving as a filter is contributing
<dlb> just picking stuff that interests you and passing it along
<bunnyhero> true true. good point.
<dlb> the signal comes from the self oscillating of the filter network that way