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Welcome!

This is the newly set up home for toreishi.net, which will serve both as a personal soapbox for the infrequent times I have something to say, as well as a reference site for users of the site (as I find time to document things, at least!). Things will be a bit cluttered for now, but bear with the mess - it'll get better!

Apologies for the short term use of reCAPTCHA for anonymous comments - I find that it tends to create some fairly ridiculous entries, but I'll need to get better at my Ruby hacking skills before I can replace it with are you a human, which I find much more tolerable.

I've been somewhat busy over the past few months, which has led to a definite dearth of updates, but I'm now at the point where I'm starting to work on a number of technical projects.

• As you can see, I've moved over the blog from using Wagn to using XWiki. A good piece of this has to do with the annoyance of trying to using Ruby Gems from a system administrator's perspective (running gem as root, which you normally want to do since it's installing files in /usr, then creates files that have bad permissions) and with dealing with Ruby app servers (for some reason, Passenger was magically working, and then equally magically broke). I don't love Ruby enough to fight with it, especially given how Gems are administratively unfriendly in how they're too much like the Wild West to be packaged in a native manner.
• I'm working on migrating from two physical servers to a single physical server running VMware ESXi with multiple virtualized hosts. This should allow me to better isolate systems from each other.
• Along with the above, I'm working on moving the physical server to be colocated, which should help buffer users from anything I may be doing with my connection.