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The Australian Techworld website recently published an interview with me on Spine, a mod_perl based CMS I created, as part of their Open Source Identity series. It discusses the differences with existing CMSs, RDBMS and language choices. The article is here

I was recently interviewed by a reporter from Techworld Australia on a mod_perl based CMS I created. Should this be posted on the mod_perl mailing list or maybe pushed onto use.perl frontpage? :)

As the geekiest Mac hardware guy in the office, I've been asked by a cow-orker to have a look at his spanking new black MacBook. The wireless connection is extremly flakey. It goes from 0% to 85% packet loss, with a preferred access point. I've compared the wireless settings side by side with my own MacBook. I'm clueless on this issue. I sure hope he got decent warranty with his purchase because my best bet is the genius bar.

Update: Since installing the latest security patches, everything seems to be stabilized (of course, I tested this around midnight, when I was partly sleeping).

One of my cow-orkers had a bright idea the other day: Simplify the configuration of tunnel configuration for Cisco routers. By entering 5 IP addresses, it would spit out configuration lines for both sides of the tunnels, auto-incrementing the IP addresses for the tunnels that were required for each line. I ended up hacking something together before coffee break and had the whole thing fine-tuned and running before afternoon coffee. Tools of choice: jQuery and plain HTML. I stayed away from the C