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December 20, 2011 Jamie Thingelstad

Love seeing Ward Cunningham, creator of the wiki, on the fundraiser campaign for Wikipedia. (I’ve been a contributor for 4 years now).

December 20, 2011 Jamie Thingelstad

Tyler’s First Stitches

Tyler had his first visit to urgent care tonight. He was running around the house like he normally does and he fell into the kitchen door frame. He got a pretty bad laceration on his forehead. It was about an inch long. It bled a lot for about a minute and then slowed down but …

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December 15, 2011 Jamie Thingelstad

Couple of cute Instagram photos of Mazie and Tyler from tonight.

Young girl with long blonde hair and blue eyes smiling, wearing a pink top, holding a piece of paper indoors Toddler with blonde hair wearing a blue shirt sits near white-framed windows at night, looking at the camera
December 10, 2011 Jamie Thingelstad

At Northern Brewing for Minneapolis Homebrew Day announcement.

November 28, 2011 Jamie Thingelstad

Our Family - November 2011

Thanks to Angie for taking the photo!

Family of four posing outdoors on a lawn with evergreen trees behind them, two adults and two young children smiling at the camera
November 27, 2011 Jamie Thingelstad

Updating my offline backup disks. 4TB of data.

November 26, 2011 Jamie Thingelstad

Forget WordPress caching plugins if using nginx, just use fastcgi_cache_path. Same for MediaWiki.

November 26, 2011 Jamie Thingelstad

Solid Browsermob load test on my new Linode VPS with nginx.

November 26, 2011 Jamie Thingelstad

Count 404’s in group of access logs

I found myself needing to see all of the 404 errors in the access logs for all virtual hosts on my web server. I put all of my logs for a given application (in this case WordPress) in one place (/srv/www/wordpress/logs/$host-access.log). Logrotate kicks in to keep them segmented …

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November 20, 2011 Jamie Thingelstad

Move to Linode

This website (and all the other websites I run) should all be running much faster now. This weekend I flipped everything from my previous VPS at Slicehost to a new instance at Linode. There is a ridiculous amount I could write about the move, and I’ll try to share what I think is …

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