Monitoring AWS Cloudwatch with Zabbix (and Prometheus)

This has taken a while as it first required finding/setting the appropriate permissions (properly!) across all 27 AWS accounts I’m currently looking after and finding a collection method that was: a) not massively resource-intensive b) worked for multiple accounts. The first one was this, itself based on two other projects. It did take quite a lot […]

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International Sign for Panic

International Sign for Panic

I read recently an article explaining “Why are people panic buying and why toilet paper?” which has a line in it – “If we had an international sign for panic it would be a traffic warning sign with a toilet paper roll in the middle.” Given that such a sign doesn’t exist, I thought I’d […]

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We are Static!

As part of the process of migrating from the legacy hosted server, these WordPress sites that I look after are now static sites hosted from Amazon’s S3 service. Thereby keeping the editable editions internal, and also the ‘live’ site ‘unhackable’ and really fast… New themes will arrive as soon as I work out how to fiddle with […]

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Why the snoopers charter is ultimately unworkable.

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I’m going to suggest that there’s one very obvious idea that this whole ‘snoopers charter’ has overlooked. “How will this affect secure business communications”. Applications such as WhatsApp use an protocol known as ‘jabber’ (actually, that app is based on a platform called MongooseIM, which is a commercial product based on the open-source ejabberd). Other […]

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Tron Legacy in 3D @ the Imax (via postie)

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Bookmark this category I’d read a couple of reviews of the film, notably from Wired and Total Film, who saw this long-awaited sequel for the sequel to the original ground-breaking film as what it was – more and better, orat least as as good from what I remember having my father take me to see […]

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Why I was right all along… (via postie)

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Bookmark this category Over the last couple of weeks I’ve had a couple of job-search results that have looked rather familiar. These being with a particular spec from a particular agency who were the only agency to deal with this particular company, which is the same as one I interviewed for a few weeks ago, […]

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The final non-solution

So…Just had a chat with the union rep about the bullying stuff that wenton at work.It would appear that me actually leaving the premises, for whateverreason, wasn’t such a good idea.According to somewhere in the staff handbook, there are procedures inplace, such as contacting higher management or going to see occupationalhealth, that are in place […]

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More updates soon…

Obviously there hasn’t been much activity on here of late.Even though I have had a lot to write about – my Palm Centro is full of things that I have listed out to make entries for… […]

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My Christmas

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..wasn’t too eventful but also had a few non-xmas related good points. Sunday my dad informs me that my aunt is coming for the festivities, not really enough time to order a present and I’m certainly not braving the hideousness of christmas shopping IRL. Was working xmas eve although we got sent home early (there […]

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Thanks for the memory…

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So last night when I got home I had a couple of packages waiting for me. One contained a 128Mb gamecube memory card, essentially for my Wii. So now there’s somewhere for those N64 saves of Mario64 to go. The other was another order from mobymemory.com which contained a 1Gb SD card, also for the […]

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