I no longer work in IT.

I am no longer paid to be a UNIX System Administrator.

I am not looking for a new role.

No matter how much money you offer me, I am not interested.

Please stop phoning me!

About twenty days ago, I started logging on individual sites on my server. Today, I ran logs for Planet SUSE through Webalizer.

You can see the full stats here but interesting things to note are that over 80% of the site's hits are on the RSS feeds, not the site itself meaning that the vast majority of its readers are doing so through a news reader of some description. Also, the host with the most hits is the external side of the SUSE office's firewall in Nuremberg.

Oh yes, and the sites get nearly 800 unique visits per day on average serving nearly 630MBytes per day - for a site that's basically a single page of text, that's a heck of a lot!

Well, not just me. The parish sermon podcast went live this morning with sermons dating back to the start of September and our Nehemiah series available.

• Download individual sermons (MP3 or Ogg Vorbis)
• Subscribe to the Podcast (MP3 only)

...thinking that Facebook's having some problems.

Today I received an order from my favourite Christian bookshop. I won't mention the company name as it wouldn't be fair given the nature of this post. On the whole I really respect the company in question - their profits go to charity and one of our best friends is a senior manager there.

Anyway, I received the order (next year's lectionary and a new Bible for preaching from) today, along with their Christmas catalogue. I have to say that I am just astounded at the sheer quantity of Christian tat that can be purchased these days. An example: a stone key chain in the shape of a fish! Not only that but there are pages and pages of what I'm calling McTheology (Ref).

As if that wasn't all bad enough, I spotted the following in the music section of the catalogue: "Ideal for fan's of good worship music!" (sic). Nnnnnnng!

Friday night, we went and saw Bill Bailey live in Birmingham as part of his Tinselworm tour. We were, apparently, the largest audience he'd ever performed to and I'm not surprised. The gig was at the National Indoor Arena which, even with one block of seats unsold (presumably because of line of sight issues - it was right behind the sound/vision desk), is enormous.

We went with most of the infamous Naughty Table from college - mad props to Liz in particular for organising the whole thing.

Apologies to anyone who'd emailed me recently to ask for something to be done on Planet SUSE - I've got a huge backlog on my inbox at the moment but just did a blitz on updates for that site.

My hosting company was subject to a DDoS this morning which meant that my server was offline for a time. The sites affected by this were:

• My site
• Planet SUSE
• The Parish of Bursledon

Roger: perhaps we should revert to the image below for your entries on Planet SUSE?

I myself often get mistaken for the local curate and no matter how much I deny it, people insist that I am. Perhaps they know something I don't...

Sometimes:

• Only some Guns 'n' Roses will do.
• Actually, only some Manic Street Preachers will do.
• I wake up not knowing what day it is.
• My heart sinks when the phone rings.
• I almost consider watching a reality TV show.
• I want to fight for people's rights.
• I get frustrated when computers don't behave as I think they ought.
• I get frustrated when people don't behave as they ought.
• I want to tear up all the red tape.
• I agree with the Conservative Party.

I'm a weak, fallen, fallible human being stumbling his way through life, trying - with the help of his Saviour - to do his best, be honest and stand up for what I believe in. I drop the ball, get it wrong, screw up. I offend the people I ought not to and I don't offend those who really need it. I allow style to get ahead of substance when I hate it when that happens.

Sometimes, I get it right. Those times are rare though.

Originally posted on Saturday 10th November, subsequently edited

Tomorrow is "Remembrance Day".

I've utterly failed to order white poppies.

I'm being asked to lead the act of remembrance.

After yesterday's website launch, I turned my attention today to the subject of logging. Ever since I commissioned my VPS, I'd not done anything with Apache's logs, simply logging each site to the main Apache log with no string to differentiate them for parsing purposes.

Not any more, I now have a separate log for each site so in due course, I'll be able to produce meaningful analysis of each site's traffic (sadly not including the launch day's logs for the church's site).

This morning, at 09:00 GMT, we launched the new Parish of Bursledon website. The new site should be much easier to navigate and maintain.

Best of all, it's been created entirely using Free Software.

• Pub Quiz: came second on a tie-break at the Vine pub quiz. A job well done by team Jamie Gold Sucks.
• On the TV at the Vine before the quiz (and on my Freeview hard-drive recorder for tomorrow) was Liverpool thrashing Besiktas 8-0. Walk on, walk on... Turns out the Vine is a Scouse pub, I may have found my local in Bursledon.

Monday is November 5th and, aside from being Caz's birthday, it's the day that we in the UK remember Guy Fawkes and the failed plot to blow up Parliament in 1605. I would like to suggest that it's time we left this arcane and offensive day behind.

We should no longer be celebrating the persecution of a religious minority to the point where they felt compelled to take matters into their own hands in the way Fawkes and his co-conspirators did. In the days of a Labour government who are hell-bent on persecuting the Islamic minority in our country, resulting in events such as that seen on July 7th 2005, that such activities are still lauded in this way is dangerous and extremely offensive.

Practically, the traditional modes of celebration - fireworks and bonfires - contribute to carbon emissions and so to climate change.

Lets stop celebrating the persecution of the Catholics - I know I have.

Aaron: Follow this process:

GNOME Control Centre - Appearance - Fonts - Details - Go to Fonts Folder

This opens a Nautilus window at fonts: and you can drop the font files in there and (I'm pretty sure that) it deals with the fc-cache foo