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	<title>Coherent Ramblings</title>
	<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog</link>
	<description>My thoughts on everything from Operations through Parenting and beyond.</description>
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		<title>Required Watching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This should be required watching for all managers and entrepreneurs.


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		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2010/06/03/required-watching/</link>
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		<title>Spiritual Safety Tip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2010/05/24/spiritual-safety-tip/</link>
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		<title>clusto do-my-dishes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While discussing the proper class hierarchy for adding our Netscalers to Clusto, we decided that Appliance was the proper name for the base class.
This of course led to the idea of coding up a driver for a dishwasher. clusto do-my-dishes FTW!
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		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2010/05/24/clusto-do-my-dishes/</link>
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		<title>Empire Parody</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2010/05/19/empire-parody/</link>
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		<title>Weirdest Mail Ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
UPDATE #2: Mystery solved! They are replacement stickies for our rain chimes, ordered by my lovely partner!
UPDATE: I just realized the envelope was folded in thirds; perhaps it was mailed inside another envelope to Seattle?


This morning I received the weirdest piece of (snail) mail I&#8217;ve ever seen. The envelope has what appear to be St. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2010/05/18/weirdest-mail-ever/</link>
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		<title>Git Hooks: Branch ACLs and more.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently at Digg, we wanted to open up the git repository containing our Puppet manifests so that our developers could work with it. However, we wanted to maintain some control over which branches they could push to, in order to prevent accidental commits to the production manifests. In addition to this fine-grained authorization, we wanted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2010/05/11/git-hooks-branch-acls-and-more/</link>
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		<title>Good for a laugh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This totally cracks me up.
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		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2010/05/07/good-for-a-laugh/</link>
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		<title>Debian Packaging Puppet Manifests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the (new?) ability for Puppet to have multiple module_dirs, the idea occurred to me: why not package a module as a Debian package?
The packaging process was relatively easy. Check out the results on GitHub.
Enjoy!
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		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2010/05/03/debian-packaging-puppet-manifests/</link>
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		<title>Bottle Feeding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My son is a breastfed baby.
Never has that been more clear to me than the last couple weeks. Aly has started work again, which means Connor needs to learn to take milk from a bottle, so that I can feed him while mom is seeing patients. We&#8217;ve got plenty of milk stored up from Connor&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2010/04/26/bottle-feeding/</link>
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		<title>Blog Changes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided to alter the direction of this blog (not that it had a lot of direction to begin with).
Thing is, I kept meaning to write more, and life kept getting in the way. After thinking about it more, it seems that the solution is to not restrict myself to just writing about work, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2010/04/24/blog-changes/</link>
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		<title>Broken Permalinks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just migrated my blog to a new server. I&#8217;m using lighttpd instead of apache, and I still haven&#8217;t figured out how to get my permalinks working correctly. Be patient with me!
(UPDATE): Permalinks finally fixed.
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		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2009/01/29/broken-permalinks/</link>
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		<title>Naming Is A Hard Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What should you name your hosts?

I used to believe this was an easy problem. Pick a theme, like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_characters">Star Wars Characters</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_constellations">Constellations</a>, and then name machines based on that theme: "chewbacca.tertiusfamily.net" for example. Use DNS CNAMEs to point your "functional" names (webapp1, or db1 or whatever) at the theme name and you're off. Then I started working for <a href="http://digg.com">Digg</a>.]]></description>
		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2009/01/20/naming-is-a-hard-problem/</link>
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		<title>Bad Blogger, no biscuit!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I haven&#8217;t been updating like I should. But, I&#8217;m apparently pretty high on the list for Google results when searching for Puppet recipes, so maybe I should fix my theme and start updating again&#8230;
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		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2008/10/10/bad-blogger-no-biscuit/</link>
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		<title>Getting python-ldap installed on OS X</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want to use Fink, and build a bunch of crap you don&#8217;t need, follow these instructions.
If you are like me and prefer to use the libraries that are already installed, just do this:

If you haven&#8217;t already, install XCode.
Download python-ldap
 and extract it.
Edit setup.cfg. The relevant lines are below: 

library_dirs = /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/lib/
include_dirs = /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/include/ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2008/07/07/getting-python-ldap-installed-on-os-x/</link>
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		<title>My First Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m at Velocity 2008 right now. So far I&#8217;ve learned several things:

Twitter can&#8217;t handle a conference.
Sun might succeed in its attempt to restore its relevance.
SSDs are going to be abother layer in server memory, between disks and RAM.
Whenever a member of the Ops team is unavailable, something breaks.
Con food isn&#8217;t remarkable, in either positive or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2008/06/23/my-first-conference/</link>
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		<title>Crickets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s quiet in here. Life has been hectic and I&#8217;m somewhat confused as to what I&#8217;m allowed to say without getting in trouble at work.
Hopefully I&#8217;ll have some more Puppet content soon.
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		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2008/06/18/crickets/</link>
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		<title>Creating Puppet Modules</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Puppet parlance, a module is a collection of manifests (including classes and definitions), templates, and files which, taken together, describe a recipe for configuring something via Puppet. Puppet has a number of facilities which make modules incredibly useful and labor-saving.
Modules have a standard internal organization which is described in detail on the ModuleOrganisation wiki [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2008/04/18/creating-puppet-modules/</link>
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		<title>SSH tab completion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is awesome. Put the following into your ~/.bash_profile file:

complete -W &#34;$(echo `cat ~/.ssh/known_hosts &#124; cut -f 1 -d ' ' \
&#124; sed -e s/,.*//g &#124; uniq &#124; grep -v &#34;\[&#34;`;)&#34; ssh

Open a new shell and type ssh tab tab. I love tab completion, don&#8217;t you?
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		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2008/03/24/ssh-tab-completion/</link>
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		<title>FreeBSD Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just followed these instructions to update my server from FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE to FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE.
Aside from taking almost a day, it went flawlessly. I&#8217;m extremely impressed!
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		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2008/03/17/freebsd-update/</link>
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		<title>Virtualization Article</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article might be interesting to some of you.
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		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2008/03/12/virtualization-article/</link>
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		<title>Bash History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are a couple of tips for more effective use of your Bash command history. I think the Ctrl-R trick will save me a lot of typing.
I have some articles planned, but have been busy starting my new job. Those few of you who actually read this, don&#8217;t worry &#8211; I&#8217;ll be back.
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		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2008/03/12/bash-history/</link>
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		<title>Useful SSH-isms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two useful SSH-isms
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		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2008/02/23/useful-ssh-isms/</link>
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		<title>Simple SSH speed-up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just discovered something that is very simple but saves a significant amount of time. Specifically, the SSH ControlMaster feature, which allows you to re-use an existing SSH connection whenever you connect to a host you are already connected to.
In your ~/.ssh/config file, add:

Host *
        ControlMaster auto
  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2008/02/14/simple-ssh-speed-up/</link>
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		<title>Is it quiet in here?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The lack of posts is due to a general lull in my work lately. I&#8217;ve got a couple of posts in the queue, but they need more development. Stay tuned!
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		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2008/02/11/is-it-quiet-in-here/</link>
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		<title>Capistrano</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things you quickly learn as you become a more sophisticated systems administrator is that performing the same task on several servers is both tedious and error-prone. Of course, if your infrastructure has been deployed in an ad-hoc manner, sometimes you don&#8217;t have a choice; the task is unique on each machine simply [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://plathrop.tertiusfamily.net/blog/2008/02/03/capistrano/</link>
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