Marcus Brigstocke goes apeshit on religion (the three main ones, anyway). Very funny, extremely insightful and he’s right! (well, I think so, anyway). Bit taken from BBC Radio’s “The Now Show”.

As a long, long, long time user of Bind (and quite frankly not being the only one by far) I’m afraid I’m losing faith. Yes, Bind still does what it does (which is: being a kickass name server or DNS) and does it well,but today a colleague introduced me to PowerDNS. Whoa!

Why I like it? Well, aside from being a Dutch product (yay!), and of course FOSS, it has a staggering amount of back-end possibilities. A list, you say? Here goes:

• Bind and Bind2 regular zone files
• DB2 database
• geo information
• MySQL database
• PostgreSQL database
• Oracle database
• SQLite database
• LDAP directory
• *any* ODBC-coupled database
• *any* OpenDBX library supporting database (like MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Firebird, Interbase, SQL Server and Sybase ASE)
• Pipes (yes, ask any outside process for answers)
• random (eh?)
• xdb tables on disk

Holy crap, that realy is a bloody long list. And it’s fast and powerful, does all you want from it (i.e.: answer DNS queries) and does is well. It’s very simple to set up, runs like a charm, easy.
I think I’m in love.

Yes I do.
My old theme, however cool-looking, depended very heavily on A) a huge wide banner image at the top and B) dynamic image replacement for the post titles. Result: long loading times. And of course I sometimes have the attention span of a stressed hamster on meth,thus I got bored with the look.

This theme, by the way, is called GenkiTheme 1.0, and is available right here. Of course I’ve edited it here and there, but I kind of dig the cleanliness while still looking colorful and…well…cheery.

Hope you dig it too.

George Carlin is dead. Now in the arms of Buddy Christ has passed one of the coolest, funniest and truest people.

Bye George. Let us know what the 7 words up there are.

Let’s tie them up together with some spammers and script kiddies and throw them in a lake.
Any blog writer will know by now that the comments get jammed with oodles of spam automatically, but today I have some new comments in my Akismet spam queue (love that Akismet!) that post a link to blogsrate.net, which is a site just for distributing viruses. I run AVG Free 8 (a very nifty virus scanner…and it’s free!) which was kind enough to warn me:

The page you are trying to access has been identified as a known exploit, phishing, or social engineering web site and therefore has been blocked for your safety.

In fact, the site tried to push a download virus/trojan to my PC. The bastards! Ah well, another asshole is thwarted by up-to-date virus scanners (hint righ there, people! UPDATE!). And here’s the asshole in question:

Domain Name.......... blogsrate.net
Creation Date........ 2008-06-22
Registration Date.... 2008-06-22
Expiry Date.......... 2009-06-22
Organisation Name.... Michael Cautillo
Organisation Address. P O Box 99800
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. EmeryVille
Organisation Address. 94662
Organisation Address. CA
Organisation Address. US

Current Registrar: MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE
IP Address: 68.180.151.31 (ARIN & RIPE IP search)
IP Location: US(UNITED STATES)-CALIFORNIA-SUNNYVALE
Lock Status: clientTransferProhibited
DMOZ no listings
Data as of: 14-Jun-2005

Well, Michael Cautillo of EmeryVille, CA: You’re a jerk, Cautillo. A complete kneebiter.
Words are yet to be invented to describe what you are, but you are one. A total one.

(Stole the idea off of Scott Johnson from ExtraLife. Go read that too, BTW.)

3:15 AM…I woke up without actually knowing why, and then it hit: heartburn. Man, I never had it this bad, now I understand how people can mistake heartburn for a heart attack, the pain totally sucks. I actually got up out of bed and drove to a local 24h pharmacy to get some Rennie antacid tablets. Now let’s hope these do the trick…

The blog is low on updates now, I’m getting my brain detailed on a VMware training this week.

In case you’re wondering: it’s pretty good. Good teacher, and I’m actually learning some new facts and features here and there. Plus the lunches are good

Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote in 60 seconds:

Yes. I want one. Gimme.

Erm…what?! Not sure whether to laugh or cry…

Leonardo DiCaprio has agreed to star in Atari, a film about video game pioneer Nolan Bushnell, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Writers Brian Hecker and Craig Sherman sold a script to Paramount at the end of last week which detailed how Bushnell went from fixing pinball machines to forming the Atari Corporation in the early ’70s. The company was eventually sold to Warner Communications for $28 million.

Bushnell was also involved in the creation of Pong and set up the Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time Theatres restaurant chain.

Link: Digitalspy