How silly of me to think I could go a year without a reboot. I guess that’s what I get for ignoring my site over the weekend. Luckily, it didn’t crash until late last night. Oh well… note to self, monitor your own web servers!!!

I just thought I found a really bad flaw in an O’Reilly book that I starting thumbing through entitled “BSD Hacks - 100 Industrial Strength Tips & Tools” written by Dru Lavigne. In one of the very hacks the author enlists the reader to create his or her very first script. “If you’ve never written a script before, this is an excellent exercise in how easy and useful scripting can be.” I laughed after reading this because it’s also an exercise in how much damage such a small bug can do.