Need a quick way to split Apache log files by month? Try this on the command line: grep “Jun\/2003\:” access_log >mysite.june2003.log
where access_log is the name of your log file, and adjusting the months, of course.
Monthly Archives: June 2003
Ooh, a regex library.
Unintentionally funny headline, thanks to James.
“Green paper to cover all children, minister confirms” (actual article)
Some of them are sadly true. You know you’ve been in the UK too long when…
“Energy pioneers are launching the world’s first offshore tidal energy turbine off the Devon coast.” (BBC)
“One of Iraq’s greatest cultural treasures has been returned to Baghdad’s national museum after it disappeared during the recent war.” (BBC)
I had a lovely day yesterday – swam in the Hampstead Heath women’s pond, then went to see Spiderbait and the Hard Ons play. The Hard Ons were an exercise in nostalgia, though it was weird feeling sentimental about songs with lyrics like ‘Fuck…. Huah’. Spiderbait rocked.
And as Blackie from the Hard Ons so wisely said, “isn’t it great to be in a country where they can’t shit stir you for having a Prime Minister who supported George Bush in that stupid war”.
Whenever I read Andrew ‘I hate the New York Times because they fired me’ Sullivan ranting about the NY Times’ supposed liberal bias, I can console myself by re-reading this:
“The political right likes to claim Raines as its victim. Andrew Sullivan… attributes Raines’ downfall to the relentless exposure of the Times’ liberal bias by conservative watchdogs on the web.
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But it’s a lot of rubbish really. The New York Times does generally prefer Democrats to Republicans, but even Raines, the liberal southerner, was extremely harsh in his condemnation of Bill Clinton for his misdemeanours. And the paper is generally very fair in its reporting. The problem for the Times is that, like the BBC in Britain, it commands so much influence that all politicians mind desperately what it has to say.”
Interesting new search engine Cluegle tries to automatically summarise results pages (via this article on human vs computer taxonomy). It picked up some interesting and not terribly representative choices on minke.com but I guess the navigation text doesn’t help.
Example: CLUEgle Keywords: alien, rich, world’s, john, her, powered, born, terrible, boring, paris, create, little, friend, works, win