Monthly Archives: May 2008

Load Balancing Tomcat on Leopard with mod_jk

May 28, 2008 – 2:24 pm

I’ve just had to setup a test system that load balances a site running on Tomcat across multiple computers. My test bed is 3 mac minis, one working as the ‘head’ running Apache, and the other two in the ‘farm’ handling the load. It was a less than painless exercise, so I thought I’d write [...]

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Wiki Central

May 28, 2008 – 9:25 am

Yet more proof that the UK is the center of the universe. The Wikipedia universe, that is

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Theme Change!

May 27, 2008 – 11:59 am

Yes, it’s that time again. Actually I started this because I have a post where I’m trying to publish a snippet of text beginning with an xml declaration, and I can’t get it to display – even using the pre tag it seems the browser tries to render it as something other than the text. [...]

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The Post American World

May 22, 2008 – 6:43 pm

Oh noes! Look what book Obama is reading!. It’s The Post American World! Clearly Obama is swotting up on how to bring America’s dominance to an end, encourage the rise of Muslim holy war, and something about Manchuria. On the other hand, the opening line of the book is “This is not a book about [...]

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El Platformo del Muerte!

May 19, 2008 – 11:02 am

Seriously, this scared the… OK, I can’t find a nice way of saying how much it scared me, but my heart was pounding and my arms and legs went all numb. And that’s just from watching the (safe for work) video. It’s literally unimaginable for me to actually walk this trail. (HT: Neatorama)

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