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And there I was, happy as a 4-year old who had just found a whole box of strawberries.

Then all of a sudden, along came a post about how Amir Salihefendic had made a little daemon in C, using libevent and memcached, that would allow him to cache a http request in memcached. I don’t quite get why one would like to reinvent a reverse http proxy like that, and stated my arguments on why I thought that this seemed like a really bad idea.

As you can tell from the comments, he did not agree. It ended up with him deleting my last comment. Good thing I kept a copy in my clipboard. So, here are the comments. More… »

I’ve been using GratisDNS A free danish dns provider to manage my dns for a long time. Using their management interface is no walk in the park. It also has a bat habit of sending the username and password as a hidden form variable for every page request, in cleartext mind you. Nothing like examining the source of a page (for instance, if you wanted to make an python api) and seeing your password in cleartext.

As far as their interface goes, I can deal with that. It works, and it seems to do what it’s supposed to do fairly easy. A thing that has pushed me over the top, is the admins inability to help diagnostic a technical issue related to using their system as a secondary dns in front of a hidden primary.

Yesterday a good friend of mine told me that there was a new player in the dns game, one started by some people that seem to care about usability, exciting features (multiple dns templates per domain) and external api’s (goodbuy BeautifulSoup). It’s called QuickDNS.

So I rushed to their site, created myself a user and started tinkering around. Let’s just say, the it was actually a pleasant experience to do, things just worked^tm. So I setup a few templates and now have transfered a handful of my domains over there. Seems to work very well, just as expected.

So a very big congratulations to the whole QuickDNS team, you’ve done an excellent job, and made me a happy customer.

I seem to have agreed to give them a case of cola once they start implementing the axfr / hidden primary feature, and another one on completion. Can’t wait!

So this morning I went to the dentist. I have the most fair and lovely dentist in the whole world, but today, there were a new dentist in town. Now I really don’t mind dentists, going to the dentist or doctors in general, but what i don’t like is not being informed about what is going to happen next. The same goes for open source projects.

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So yestoday Seph, Rune and me went to work. Apparently i came at the exact right moment, as the first question I was met with was “Hey, we talked about going to the downstairs café for brunch. You in?”.

Seeing as this is the thrid time we went down there in the last 3 weeks, we came up with a little ruleset for when we are allowed to ditch work, and have a relaxing cup of coffee.

Rules for café going for the Coniuro denmark office are:

• If it’s very hot outside
• If it’s very cold outside
• If it’s very windy outside
• If it became a habbit
• If it has been a while since the last time we went

If any of the rules should become true, we are allowed to go.

Having an office in the center of copenhagen has it’s advantages!

Seeing as Copenhagen (the city where I live) has a whole lot of fat, lazy pigeons, what better to use them for, than a little game giving them exercise and entertainment for yourself.

The pigeon’s of Copenhagen are quite lazy and probably won’t even move unless you are very close to stepping on them. You can easily walk very close to most of them, and you could hand feed them if you thought that was fun. I don’t. I’m more into stressing them.

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