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Wednesday, 25 September 2002

Today, we installed JIRA on an NT server for a client. It turned out the NT server was running into swap because of a bunch of other stuff running on it and the app ran too slowly, so David suggested, “Why don't we stick it on the AS/400?” So we did. Now from Mike's reaction we're the first person to try this. It worked first time. In fact, it took less time to get running than it did to poke a hole in the firewall so people could see it. Next time someone tells me Write Once Run Anywhere is pointless, or just a myth, I shall beat them with my clue-stick. 5:20:51 PM

Russell Beattie: It's surprising to me how most bloggers could care less about their domain name. It would drive me absolutely batty to have a number as the sole identifier of my weblog. Yes, it bugs the hell out of me. The Radio weblog was just a bit of a weird hobby I never really expected anyone to read, but then one day I started getting links and readers, and I was somewhat stuck with it. Now I've got enough link-cred that Google notices what I'm saying, and that's a drug that's hard to give up. I don't particularly like Radio either. I was planning to just stick MT or Roller on www.pastiche.org and be done with it, but then my hosting provider jacked up the prices by 33% and I had to move the server back onto the wrong side of my 56k modem. Oh well, at least 190 is a low number. 12:21:24 AM