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Whilst Michael Phelps Challenge Day came and went without a serious attempt at smashing the 10,000 calorie barrier there have definitely been a few days of serious ingestion – returned to a Brazilian meat fest at Churrasco's in Coogee (or, more accurately, went there for the first time as the last time we tried to go there forgotten bookings meant a relocation to the far swankier [and much more expensive] Wildfire version) – a Boy's Night In™ became a Boy's Night Out™ after various negotiations with various parties. A slight ethical dilemma in planning of the evening – started out with tentative planning for a Tuesday night in with Messuir Gray which usually involves pizza and half-hearted attempts at work. A late invitation to take up some spare tickets for a West End Musical (near Central Station) meant I got rid of the ladyfriend and miniature ladyfriends for the evening but a separate tentative invitation for a farewell dinner @ Churrasco's (which had been made before the original tentative plan had been firmed up) put a slight fly in the ointment. Attempted to combine the Boy's Night In™ with the Boy's Night Out™ to create a pure and simple Boy's Night™ but there was half hearted enthusiasm for the idea from the Boy's Night In™ crowd. Excuses were made, none of which were very convincing (yes, I know you diet sometimes but you wouldn't be having a milkshake if you were over at my house!) but a blessing for a graceful exit was made although there was still some guilt. There would have been less had my hump not been ridden concerning the end results of the negotiations which were definitely in my favour. In the end, managed to out-eat everyone very satisfactorily which did mean that I suffered the next day but if that's the worst that can happen it's still pretty good.
Thursday, 25 September 2008
Sunday, 21 September 2008
Labours of Love
In my role as The Good Boyfriend(TM) I've done many things to incur favour with my ladyfriend but none have been potentially more excruciating than attending a high school musical show and a sweet 16th birthday party - the idea of watching a hundred nubile post-pubescents sing, dance and play awful top 40 hits that would be more suitable for Abu Ghraib than Aberdeen is not what I normally plan for an evening - that said, despite 2 hours without intermission (and not even a bottle of water for sale), it was not that bad and the one we went to see was surprisingly good (although one would presume there's a bias) - birthday parties the next day involved considerable effort and stress - the least of which was trying not to burn down the house with some particularly fatty greyhound sausages - the flames wouldn't have been that bad had I a network of manly man to laugh and roister about it with - but with an audience of a dozen 15-16 year old girls you don't want to be showing too much incompetence. I hope my efforts have been appreciated.
Thursday, 18 September 2008
Battle of the Egos
Three days away from the confidential world in the middle of an important project was probably not the most sensible thing to do but I wasn't the one who faffed around so I can't feel too guilty about the timing. A brief stint as the odd bod in Episode 3 of the latest pilot offering of Rock Chikz was a very entertaining way to spend the middle of the week - despite having to deal with a couple of slightly over inflated egos at times and a script which could have done with a bit of nitpicking I have to say that filming with professionals, even if they are all still on the verge of making it, is a far cry from working on a home financed short. The jargon I picked up from the Metroscreen course paid some dividends as I actually knew what MS, LS and ECU translated to, I knew what to do when asked for a white balance and I knew where to go to get a cup of tea as well as the obligatory free meal. And despite the early starts meant missing the morning rides (which are surprisngly addictive) the locations were spaced out enough to ensure a decent amount of riding in each day - pancakes beat petrol in the evening (even though it was a dodgy veal schnitzel) with an unplanned race from Newtown to Centennial Park and all seemed good in the world. I suppose.
Sunday, 14 September 2008
A Man Of Principle
Another week at the confidential place which was mostly a week of stress with a slight ray of hope near the end followed by a crashing reality check on what happens when you faff around too much - can't say I was too surprised but am relatively confident that disaster won't strike too badly. A new box of bike toolz was purchased and a fair whack of zen and the art - made a couple of mistakes of which I must admit there was no real excuse (taking out a pin of the master link in a chain is a no-no) but others were just pure frustration (is it ever possible to properly clean a chain? Every time I do it it seems to get worse - that dude in Vancouver once told me never to ever use any solvent on a chain - I think he may have been right). Still, my hands have been filthy with grease for the past five days straight which is never very pleasant. The month of Credtember is clicking along - almost halfway there and still not a coin spent - it's caused a few issues thus far - managed to escape buying rounds of beer at one pub but made up for it by purchasing a round (or two ... due to a badly negotiated exchange) of cocktails at the infinitely toffier second drinking establishment, due to minimum transaction rates a $4 essential purchase turned into a $20.20 purchase of things which will be used but were more a want than a need, am continuing to annoy the ladyfriend by sponging coffees (pretty sure she's doing alright by the whole thing though) and also found myself with nothing to warm me at the halfway mark of a mammoth 140k ride through torrential downpours and blustering headwinds. I even had a fair chunk of change that I always keep in my tool bag but my vow dictated that I must not spend it. Man, it's hard being such a principled man.
Friday, 12 September 2008
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
Meredith Who?
Very interesting ... pardon my political ignorance but Meredith Who? Is she like Madonna or Cher? Not once in the entire article has Ms Farrelly mentioned a surname.
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
So Much For Loving The Fans ...
The arrogance of this woman continues to astound me ... if Roddenberry/TPTB at Star Trek had taken her tactic of quashing fan developed supporting material then it would not have the juggernaut of an army of die-hard fans it has today (and that may be a good thing). The Harry Potter books are a publishing, not a literary, phenonemon - they've made her a millionaire a thousand times over (so I hear). Yes, they've introduced millions to the magic of reading (excuse me while my stomach settles), many children who would otherwise not be reading anything found themselves translating the words to images in their heads but that doesn't mean the books are great (sure, the 4th and 7th were pretty good but LOTR they ain't). Appealing to the masses doesn't make you great. Suing anyone who hopes to make a profit from their hero-worship of her doesn't seem to me to be a great way to reward a fan base.
Will it make her more money? Probably. Will it disillusion her legions of fans? Probably not. Is it a bitch of thing to do? Absolutely.
Will it make her more money? Probably. Will it disillusion her legions of fans? Probably not. Is it a bitch of thing to do? Absolutely.
Saturday, 6 September 2008
Cheat To Win
... or to come third. A credit card behind the bar can do wonders for the perception of a little social experiment in a cashless existence. Zeb's eagerly awaited race turned out to be much later than planned and therefore not only was it in the gridlock of peak hour but also in the dark and in the rain. Considered being a mere checkpoint but thought ... f**k it, you're only young once and the fact that the race was reduced from a cross town alleycat to an 'Urban Keirin' meant it didn't seem that bad. Still, first time I've raced on Chevette since the removal of her front brake and that's never good in the slickness of rain soaked streets. The course was simple and short - around Hyde Park North a few times - Elizabeth was packed with buses, trucks and cars (including several from the police and fire brigade) but Park and College was pretty empty, which meant kicking it was not a problem. The SCC may have helped with the endurance, what little was needed, but the time out from the urban grind of day-to-day deliveries meant I wasn't really up for flying between buses that were coming together like the boats in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (do you remember that scene? Where Indy and the girl fly between the two boats and the protectors of the grail who are following them get blown up when a tug boat knocks the two ships closer to each other? Do you remember? It wasn't that long ago). Still, no ping ponging required - a bit of medean strip riding and a bit too much skidding - but hey, for right or wrong, I was declared third (which is better than second, which is better than first, at least I remember telling myself that sometime long ago) and that's got to be a good thing. No need to explain myself too much - Southampton Paul finally got his jersey (still waiting for the right race for me) and I got drunk. Don't completely remember how I got home but I think Burgerfuel was involved. Hurrah.
Friday, 5 September 2008
Change Is Coming?
If McCain says that change is coming I can only assume that means he's predicting his own loss. Either that, or it's a very thinly veiled attack on the current guy in charge, someone who's supporters he's supposed to be representing.
Cheap Is As Cheap Does
The first fly in the ointment of Credtember - apparently coffees purchased on an account do not accrue loyalty stamps that lead to free kaffirnation. Most disappointing when one is expecting double stamps on two purchases but will have to be a bit more strategic in purchasing from now on. A fair night of free entertainment with a short film debut that was followed by a bar tab (admittedly a gold coin donation was required but was shuffled off to a fellow citizen) and then by a free ticket session of 'Not Quite Hollywood' in a virtually empty cinema. Hurrah.
Less desirable addictions were also adequately purchased by plastic - do it in the right place and do it in bulk and you'll be fine.
Less desirable addictions were also adequately purchased by plastic - do it in the right place and do it in bulk and you'll be fine.
Thursday, 4 September 2008
Obama The Elitist?
Amusing. I am aware that not being an American means I can't vote in their election but I'll be damned if anyone says that the results of their election won't affect me.
Portrayal Of Obama As Elitist Hailed As Step Forward For African Americans
Portrayal Of Obama As Elitist Hailed As Step Forward For African Americans
Ah, Chrome ...
Can't use it at work 'cause of the firewalls; can't use it at home 'cause it's only on Windows ... Still, it's the best browser to date.
Wednesday, 3 September 2008
Cultural Sensitivity???
The didgeridoo is a great contribution to the music world by the Aboriginal people but for a doctor (!!! I can only hope it's that he's an academic PhD and not someone of the medical profession) to make the claim that playing the instrument can lead to infertility in girls is sheer idiocy. Was Harper Collins being a bit insensitive to Aboriginal culture here or is Dr Rose being incredibly insensitive to women?
Now, I believe in respecting other cultures - to the extent that they're not talking out of their arses. I respect Islam but I don't respect their intolerance of apostates, homosexuals and the subjugation of their women. I respect the right of Evangelical Christians to believe whatever the hell they want to believe but not at the expense of denying the realities of evolution and forcing their children to grow up in ignorance. I respect women but I don't respect them riding my hump for supposed transgressions with doing my share of the household chores (that is a joke).
Well, Dr Rose has asked Harper Collins to treat the issue a bit more seriously, but I think if he wants anyone to take this issue seriously he should do the same.
Credtember - Day 3
Still no issues in the month of Credtember - am abusing my priviliges by sponging off co-workers for coffee despite having tab at local cafe. Luncheon has been brought thus far - eliminating need for petty cash transactions at the noon hour - so far so good. Potential issue coming up on Friday with a cash-entry alleycat but am presuming that entry can be paid off with beer.
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
Cashless Society?
In a world of credit cards and bank transfers, vouchers and buses you can't even get on unless you've pre-bought your ticket it seems we're closer than ever to living in a cashless society. But, is it possible to live a normal existence free of the bounds of paper (well, plastic paper) and metal tender? We shall see. The ninth month of 2008 will be Credtember (for lack of a better name) for me - all monetary transactions throughout the month will be virtual. Obviously, the bigger transactions will be easier - nobody thinks twice about buying big-ticket items with a credit or debit card but the little things may well prove to be an issue. To that effect, IOUs and tabs will be a valid form of purchase for Credtember (as long as the vendor agrees - the first tab secured is the morning coffee from Platos, the 1 Market St cafe that produces a very serviceable piccolo late and I'm hoping that their generosity will extend to the occasional sammich although I'm planning to minimise such inordinate expense by making my own luncheon which is usually preferable anyway). I've also decided that little purchases can be made in cash, as long as it's not with my cash. This may mean pushing the limits of various friendships for the month but most of my friends are aware of my strange and varied principles so they shouldn't be too perturbed. Let's see how we go.
Yes, very special ...
Interesting chat at a right wing think tank on Monday's evening - the MD of our very Special Broadcasting Service was spruiking his network and explaining how they do so much with so little. Was interesting to note the breakdown of income for the second "public" in terms of government funding and commercial revenue - although I think I may have flustered him when I asked him if SBS would ever consider rolling back the commercials if they were to get the additional funding from the government that they required. No. I seriously think that despite SBS having a much lower income from commercials than the major networks from a consumer point of view it's very hard to sympathise with a group that calls itself public when the programs it shows are constantly being broken up by ads.
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Do you struggle with your relationship to food?
For many, the battle with weight-loss is more internal. It is more spiritual than it is physical; because we fail to turn to our true source of comfort - Jesus Christ - and make food our comfort instead.
So, for those who find themselves battling food more in the mind; who find themselves craving food more than God, there needs to be a renewing of the mind.
"And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God." Romans 12:2
Renewing the mind isn't some complicated thing that only seasoned Christians understand. It is quite simple...and yet it requires discipline and determination.
10 Powerful Verses to Renew Your Mind About Food
What I like about these verses is that they do not demonize food or eating.
We need to get away from that in our culture! Food isn't bad, it is good and necessary for our physical well being.
It is how we use food that can be good or bad.
Even in the Keto community, there is a tendency to label foods as good or bad. I would never classify a natural, whole food as either good or bad.
(Though, I don't seen anything wrong with labeling chemically-laden, man-made foods as bad, because they are. They're worse than bad - they are lethal!)
These verses take the focus off of food and make Jesus our focus!
1. Matthew 4:4
2. Matthew 15:11
3. 1 Corinthians 8:8-9
4. 1 Corinthians 10:13
5. John 4:34
6. John 6:35
7. Matthew 6:25
8. 1 Corinthians 10:31
9. Matthew 5:6
10. John 6:27
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Project Adventure
The Field Trip to Project Adventure was a success! Despite the rainy weather, students and staff participated in several team building activities including leadership games, rock climbing, and high ropes courses. Students talked about skills that they needed to use in their group to be successful at each activity. Some of the skills mentioned from the students were:
Below are some pictures from the field trip:
Smartphone Solutions
We know the beginning of the year can be tough as academic demands increase. If your child is forgetful or disorganized, their iphone (or any smartphone) can be a great and easy tool to help them stay on top of
assignments! Below are some ways your teen's phone can help he/she stay organized:
Evernote: Your teen can jot notes, take down instructions, and create simple to-do lists. The app syncs everything between your phone, tablet, and computer automatically.
Alarm: Not only can the alarm app be used to wake up in the morning for school, it can also be labeled and set throughout the day to serve as reminders for your teen. Reminders can be set to finish a homework assignment, get a permission slip signed, buy something at the store, etc.
IntervalMinder: The Interval Minder is an interval timer that when set will alert your teen continuously for a fixed or varied time interval. A screen flash, vibrate, or tone can be used as the subtle alert. If your teen tends to lose focus or get lost in her/his own thoughts, the IntervalMinder can be a good tool to help refocus.
Calendar: Not only is the Calendar app on their cellphones helpful to keep track of events, due dates, or appointments, simple "to-do" apps or reminder apps such as Wunderlist or Remember the Milk can be used to create lists that are organized by task, time, and location. These particular apps can link to email, tablet, and computer as well.
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When you call Operation Catnip to make a Catnip Sunday clinic reservation, you can make trap loan reservations at the same time if you don't have your own, previously approved, humane wire traps.
Reserve trap(s)
Stray and feral community cats survive because they are smart and wary creatures who are sometimes challenging to trap. Please be realistic about the number of cats you expect to trap when making reservations. We reserve the right to limit the number of traps allowed per caregiver to 10.
Pick Up trap(s)
Trap pick-up is every Saturday from 9 am until 1 pm. Traps must be picked up one week prior to Catnip Sunday. Reservations not fulfilled, will be cancelled. Repeated reservations that are not fulfilled may result in loss of reservation privileges.
Only an Operation Catnip representative can loan traps for our clinics. A Catnip Sunday clinic reservation and a $70 trap deposit and a government issued phono ID are required. We accept cash, checks, credit or debit cards. Your deposit will be released when you return the trap the week following the clinic. Traps may only be returned during Saturday trap loan/return hours. Traps dropped off and not officially returned may result in the loss of your deposit. All traps returned late without prior authorization, returned dirty, or left at the office not during Saturday trap loan/return will result in a $10 per trap fee. This fee is to help recoup a small portion of the cost of staff time tracking down delinquent traps, cleaning dirty traps, and returning traps in our system outside of our normal hours
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This is not the form currently used by Operation Catnip, it is an example for other programs to use.
Our trap storage is located at our office behind the Alachua County Humane Society at 4205 NW 6th St, Gainesville. Traps can be picked up and returned only during office hours.
Our trap storage is located at our office behind the Alachua County Humane Society at 4205 NW 6th St, Gainesville. Traps may be picked up and returned only on Saturdays from 9am until 1pm.
Reservations may be made by emailing email@example.com
Our phone number is 352-380-0940. The phone is not answered by staff but is for voicemails. Utilizing email is a faster and more efficient method of communication.
The Alachua County Humane Society does not loan traps for use by Operation Catnip caregivers for Catnip Sunday clinics or any Operation Catnip program.
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To reclaim your deposit, return the borrowed traps clean and free of any paper or debris by the trap due date written on the contract. Please launder and return the trap cover as well. If you are not successful in trapping all the cats in your colony, check with Operation Catnip staff about the availability of our Targeted Community Cat program, or return any borrowed traps, and make a reservation for the next Catnip Sunday clinic.
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The Republic on a Plate
If you find yourself in the Czech Republic and ask the average Czech what would be the most authentic Czech dish you could eat to get a real taste for the national cuisine, chances are very good that they will say one word: "Svíčková"
Svíčková, a marinated beef dish served with dumplings, is a dish steeped in history and pride. Every Czech will tell you that his or her grandmother or mother makes the absolute best Svíčková anywhere and no self respecting Czech grandmother or mother will part with her particular recipe for it easily if at all.
Happily, if you can't get an invitation from a Czech to a home cooked plate of the national dish, no restaurant in the country worth its salt that serves any amount of national cuisine will be without at least one variation of svíčková on their menus.
Try it Yourself
If you're not planning to be in the Czech Republic anytime soon and don't have a Czech restaurant in your vicinity, don't despair! Here's two examples of many recipes you can use to try making your own:
These articles will give you some good insights into how svíčková fits into Czech culture and how selective some people can be about how best to make it:


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You might feel like you have sand in your eyes, or they might burn or itch. You might be sensitive to light, have blurry vision, or, in some cases, your eyes might water. And you may have a tough time wearing contact lenses.
Your eyes need moisture. This helps them work the way they're supposed to and keeps them comfortable. Your body normally makes moisture for your eyes, but when you can't — or it's not good quality — that can make your eyes hurt and affect your eyesight.
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Tuesday, 19 March 2013
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Lovely things here, hope you enjoyed your meal! :) xReplyDelete
The cards look lovely and the talk sounded fab. So many pretty things. :)ReplyDelete
Very pretty images! I love Nigel Slater recipes, so homely and heart warming!ReplyDelete
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Hello sweet Victoria! Your new business cards are beautiful! I love all of your gorgeous photos and creations! I hope you and your boyfriend enjoy the cottage pie! The talk sounds wonderful! We have eaten organically for many years and it is a joy to cook your own food and knowing where it comes from. I wish we had more local farmer's markets, but when we move to Minnesota we will have a lot more local farms to buy from! I look forward to that! I hope you have a wonderful rest of the week! Much love, Paula xoReplyDelete
Love the new cards - you have such an eye for pretty things! Looking forward to Artweeks too xxReplyDelete
Beautiful works of embroidery Victoria!ReplyDelete
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Monitoring Round Table
At Infinity Works, we use a variety of different monitoring tools with our clients: Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch, AppDynamics, Splunk, ELK etc. They all appear similar or appear to do similar things, but actually work in very different ways. We got together to talk through the options, starting by getting some definitions out of the way.
So what is a metric?
AH: Let's start with a "sample" - a numeric value at a point in time. A "series" is a set of "samples" and a "metric" is a catch-all for a named series, or aggregation of multiple series.
An "event" doesn't necessarily have a value attached to it so I think of it as a sample with an integer value, usually one because things don't often happen at exactly the same time.
How often you sample is really important because you can only see the shape of a curve if you sample it enough. If you only sample at the top or bottom of every curve, you could get a very strange result, while sampling too much will give you a data volume problem.
There are different techniques to handle this like reducing the granularity of data over time or precomputing averages so that when you report on them they are fast to render.
Be cautious of the average. Although it's more difficult to think about distributions it's worth the effort. For example, if you've got six servers and you're looking at the total percentage CPU usage, you're probably looking at an average over those six servers and might actually have four servers that are really working hard and two servers that are not doing very much.
Log aggregation
Splunk and ELK are increasingly used to produce dashboards, although the traditionally they have been seen as log aggregation tools. They do this by extracting data from logs, as per this example of a Grok pattern from the Logstash. It demonstrates a regular expression which pulls useful samples out of this HTTP log file entry. Since each log entry has a timestamp, then it's pretty easy to do, with developers simply adding log entries for new metrics.
Runtime profiling
AH - In the AppDynamics / New Relic space we've got tools which add profiling which has kind of traditionally been a desktop activity but is increasingly happening on the server. These tools answer a different set of questions, not just how much RAM the software is using, but where is that RAM going?
Do I have a dictionary that's continually increasing in size because it's a static object and won't be garbage collected? For example, I once had a system where the dependency injection framework was creating new objects which were never being disposed of. As a result, the longer the application lived on, the more and more RAM it consumed. Eventually you'll see that in production because your application will slow down but then when you restart it, it will go back to normal so you might never know the underlying cause. I used ANTS Memory Profiler to tackle that one, and it was very easy to spot with the tool.
Things like AppDynamics and New Relic have agents which can hook into the profiling APIs of some platforms, get notified of all functions calls and extract the data for analysis while other platforms require sampling profilers which essentially stop the program repeatedly and look at where every thread is currently executing. Over time you can say 50% of the times I looked it was in this location so therefore that's using 50% of the CPU. You can drill down into individual functions and see the lines of code where problems are happening, and even see which SQL code was being executed.
AH - Instrumentation is where you update your code to push metrics out. Timing data can be pushed out automatically by tools - sometimes just by literally adding logging between each line - or manually by developers just adding in custom logging to log the time taken to complete critical activities.
Speaker: It sounds like a bad thing to be doing to me, because you're not going to run it live like that.
AH: I think increasingly people do run in production like that. I watched a talk of the Golang UK Conference and the company the speaker was working for was bidding in real time auctions to place advertisements. They had to respond within a timeframe of milliseconds or they wouldn't be able to participate in the auction. They ran the profiling all the time and said they didn't really notice any difference. I think that level of profiling performance might be unqiue to Go though.
Speaker: I think also there's times where you can kind of switch it on and switch it off when you need it, when something is going wrong that can also give you problems when it's running.
AH: There's been a few approaches to instrumentation:
- Adding data into the logs and pulling that out via a log forwarding agent.
- Pushing metrics out via an agent or directly from the app.
- Having the application present a metrics interface - a pull mechanism.
The final monitoring element to consider is concurrency monitoring. In multithreaded apps it's important to track thread starvation, where tasks are waiting to be scheduled against a CPU.
What is monitoring telling you? What to monitor, what to collect, what are the risks and what metrics?
ND: It's dead easy to monitor things like CPU utilisation and see if the computer's busy. Which is brilliant, but what if the CPU is meant to be busy?
BB: Yes, what are you using the monitoring for as well? Are you using it for indicating whether to scale-up your cloud infrastructure or are you using it for queue length where you might need to build new on-premise infrastructure. It's what you're actually trying to get out of the monitoring rather than just having it tell you you've got a problem, because it might not be a problem.
ND: Monitoring tells you what's happening, it doesn't tell you why, it doesn't allow you to infer anything. You have to have some context or knowledge to put any sense into it.
IC: It's tricky narrowing down your monitoring to just you know, what you want to take action on, because then you've got a pretty narrow view aren't you?
ND: In one of our projects, we started with a bunch of monitoring stuff and the acknowledgement at the start was 'We might not need all this stuff but we'll put them up, run it for a while and see what is meaningful' because we knew when you were going to get high load.
SR: We went round and we got the infrastructure stats out because that's what you do, that's conventional isn't it, and we also invested some time to get some business stats that we knew we wanted. The principle we had was that we're not that interested in infrastructure stats, as a rule, because they are context-free whereas if I know from a business perspective registrations have just stopped, something is wrong, and I can then drill down. So I look into peaks and I might need to take an action based on behaviour on…it's more behavioural kind of stuff…
ND: It's almost like its layered isn't it? You start off with the business stuff because as long as that keeps ticking along at the expected rate then I might not need to go digging. It happens a lot in business scorecards and dashboards and things. The execs look at the red/amber/green lights, saying "Is everything okay?" "Green light yes" "I'm not going to spend any more time on that." "Is it a red light?" "Yes." "So who do I call now to tell them to go digging?"
SR: I absolutely didn't want to traffic light our monitoring - we don't have any because I think it's very hard to define because you end up having to create an arbitrary model and then you're tuning the model like "You should have gone amber" but it never did, "Okay good I'll tune it" because we've had so long building this arbitrary model that nobody really understands or you've got kind of web genius in the corner….
ND: But I mean you are looking at logins and business usage and stuff. They're genuinely useful metrics, you can tell everything is working and if you see a problem then you then almost go down to the infrastructure level to kind of like go "Is the network working? Is the ELB busy or overly busy or…?"
SR: Yes things like that because they are kind of trending and profiling, of the infrastructure, have I got a big enough box or…
ND: I guess you drill down to the individual hosts and see if you see problems, is it just one host that is overloaded or more than one?
SR: Yes, from a stakeholder's perspective it was useful to expose the business metrics up-front because they could then get confidence that the system was up and running and then didn't need to involve me to find out if it's running, how many of these things have happened today, what's the rate of this, what's the rate of that? etc.
AB: How do you collect your business metric requirements? I've found one of the hardest things is to engage people. Maybe because they're not really interested?
SR: From
customer we knew what they already had internally, so our minimum requirement was to replicate what they already had.
ND: At
customer, our job is to make a certain pipeline go fast, but when we asked about peak load through a period, they didn't really know so we had to go back to last year and guess how much more would be processed this year. You have to start with how many physical things happen in the real world, how many data points that is generating in your system and how much of that data actually gets to the bit that you're working on.
Speaker: If you start with obvious metrics and demonstrate that, you'll quickly get "Oh that's interesting. Would it be possible to split that value by this other dimension?, or what about this dimension?", so it's an iterative process.
Speaker: If you see something go wrong on the graphs it's quite useful to have things like when the last deployment was run, what's it usually like at this time of day and other data overlaid in your graphs.
Don't monitor in isolation, you need to understand the business impact of what you're doing and what the metrics are telling you.
Is it better to script logs or expose/push metrics?
Speaker: Pushing metrics has a cost, an application cost if it's running the push from the same place as you're running.
AH: Prometheus has some cool eatures for this. For batch processes, you can POST metrics to a piece of software called the pushgateway. You can keep pushing metrics to it from batch processes on the machine, with Prometheus regularly scraping metrics from the pushgateway instead.
Speaker: Well the thing is you buy a Splunk license and use that for everything. [laughter]
Speaker: A lot of time, but I've seen it several times where you've tried to do real time log analysis in with Splunk so you go right, in that case we'll write a special log line that has values in it and what you end up with is millions and millions and millions of useless lines because they were only valid for five seconds.
Speaker: I guess the true example of trying to do that was on
project where we tried to use Splunk for everything and it's not a top performer because it's a bit clunky for most people. On
project, we've got Prometheus for some stuff and I don't want to say but ELK for the log stuff…
Speaker: Every time I've been to a place that uses Splunk, the team have taken the approach of logging everything and figuring out what to monitor later.
Speaker: It's more effecient to expose stats at a certain point, but you'd have to keep the internal status…
AH: When you implement counters in Prometheus it will do that [maintain statistics] for you.
AH: An alert is a notification of an event that we expect to trigger some kind of response workflow. How do we turn our metrics into alerts?
Speaker: Prometheus will do all that and that's how we've got ours setup. I think the best way to get started is to get something live, figure out the system then configure some alerts. We're now getting to the point where we understand the heartbeat of the system and are able to configure alerts for that. So we've now got some alerts set around whether parts of the system seem to have gone down, that logs are working and backups are completed every day.
Speaker: That's the critical thing though isn't it? It's whether you care about the alerts and you need to figure that out at the time by living with the thing.
|Speaker: Because we've all been swamped by spammed by alerts and you just go "this happens every day
|. That's been red for weeks…
Speaker: Once you start ignoring it, it loses its value.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: You've got to decide what scenarios you're going to take some action against. So one half of your database going offline, or the fact that we haven't processed any transactions for the last five minutes might be something to address, whereas you probably wouldn't be interested to know the CPU spiked.
AH: We also need to check that someone's got the message and that if they are on call they do get woken-up. If not, we need to escalate that to the second point of contact. And then you have other problems, you've got to manage and maintain the list, handle giving your team phones, or use tools like Pager Duty where you get an app on your phone. We also need to communicate with other people who need to know about incidents. Just pinging an alert to a channel doesn't mean that anyone saw it or took action on it - it just means that it triggered the alert but there should be probably a process behind that.
How do we capture business metrics like abandoned shopping carts?
Speaker: The way to do this is to time-bound it and say that if you see an event where you expect another to follow within a time period, and it doesn't happen, then you might need to trigger an action.
Is there any need to pay for monitoring tools?
Speaker: So I suppose my only input, having been a manager that bought AppDynamics for a previous company, it's really good. It claims to be a bit of a silver bullet, where you switch it on and you'll see all these wonderful metrics. But they're all totally unlabelled and you don't know what the hell is going on. Unless you wire your code properly, you don't really get the information about which methods it's calling and what the transaction boundaries are, so it's actually not much use to you unless you put extra work into it.
You need to get somebody educated to use it and they need to spend time to get their head around it. You need to spend a bit more money to wire it to all the things that you do care about on top of your licence fee. So it's really good if you're going to make a long term commitment to it.
I think if you spend all that money, you spend all that time and you still have the question "What do I need to monitor?" You kind of go back to the start, I've got this beautiful shiny capable tool, now what do I do with it?
I've been really impressed by Prometheus, you can just do stuff and it's really well supported by the community. It's got export and you can do all your tinkering with the free stuff and if you really, really, really identify a gap then go and spend $3000 for a JVM licence on AppDynamics.
Speaker: I've used New Relic before for phone monitoring and finding out what the actual user experience has been on that. It took a long time to set up properly, and work out what we were capturing and what we needed to capture. The value we got out of it, don't know. I mean it tells you a bunch of stuff and you go what do I do about that? Is that a bad thing or…
Speaker: You need to know what you're trying to achieve before you start monitoring it I think. I think that seems to be what this has boiled down to.
Speaker: So the summary of the meeting is that you know what you want before you start doing it I think.
Speaker: Let's assume we do know so one option is you go out and buy AppDynamics and you can probably do most of what you want, is that fair?
Speaker: It is easy to set up and you do just put a couple of adaptations in and it does get up and working and if you want to make it richer you can tag your code a bit more. It will drill into all the related servers and it will be auto discovering, so AppDynamics will get you up and running quickly if you know what you want to monitor, why you want to monitor it, it will do it quicker but I think for most people the question isn't "how do I monitor this" it's "what should I be monitoring"? It's not so much the doing of the monitoring it's the "why am I bothering"?
Speaker: It's an off the shelf solution to the requirement of just log everything.
Speaker: If you're at the point you know what you want to monitor and how you want to monitor it and you have a load of people, they'll probably go "Oh I'll just use Prometheus because I don't need any other help."
Speaker: It just seems if it's worth monitoring then it's worth doing it properly rather than to automatically do something but not do it quite how you need it.
Speaker: So has anyone got any experience of anything other than one of these expensive ones or this Prometheus?
Speaker: Dynatrace. It's all the same kind of thing to be honest, that you've got to invest so much time getting everything set up. It does do a lot out of the box but it's not specific to your business or anything like that. So from my point of view, why should I spend loads of money when I've got to invest the same amount of time, the same amount of effort, if not more, when I could just use something else?
Speaker: Maybe that's what it boils down to. None of those things cater to your business so all they will tell you is this server is a bit warm, this data base has fallen over but it won't tell you you're losing money right now, that's kind of the important thing.
Speaker: You've got to configure it and program it to do that for you, which you'd have to do if you were building your own anyway.
Speaker: I've had good stuff out of Google analytics as well. No-one has kind of mentioned it but it's just kind of setting up goals and things like that and seeing what's hit and what sort of paths through things and real time on server monitoring. I've seen that all quite nicely through Google analytics and that's free unless you really want to go down the line of paying mega bucks for it. So it's kind of what you want to do with it.
Speaker: Monitoring is for life not just for Christmas!


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The Hawk and His Boy, the first book in the Tormay Trilogy, is now available on Audible.com. If you're an audio-book lover, click on over and get a copy. The very talented Wayne Farrell did the narration, and he'll be narrating books two and three as well. I'm extremely pleased to have another format available. I suppose the next format to tackle would be a film or TV version. If anyone has Joss Whedon's cell phone number, please let me know.
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A 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit off the southern coast of El Salvador and west of Nicaragua on Monday night.
The quake hit about 35 miles south of Chirilagua, the US Geological Survey said. It was also located approximately 40 miles south of Intipuca, 52 miles south of La Union, and 105 miles south of capital San Salvador, the USGS said.
UPDATE ON TSUNAMI: The National Weather Service wrote on Twitter: "No widespread #tsunami threat from 7.4 magnitude #earthquake off the Pacific coast of Central America. #PTWC."
Early reports say there was minor damage done in the quake.
The quake had a depth of more than 40 miles.
Preliminary reports said a tsunami warning was issued for along the coasts of Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador.
It's unclear if there was any damage done.
A number of people across Central America on social media websites said they could feel the quake.
Story is developing…
Updates on twin 7.4-magnitude quakes that struck off coast of El Salvador: http://t.co/u9dk0HkFKM pic.twitter.com/JxXCyfqepV
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A magnitude 7.4 earthquake off the Pacific coast of El Salvador late Monday disrupted power to several communities and claimed the life of one man who had been sleeping on a street.
The quake was part of a series of strong temblors that rattled much of Central America. The strongest quake was centered in the Pacific Ocean about 169 kilometers (105 miles) southeast of San Salvador and occurred at 9:51 p.m. local time (10:51 EDT; 0251 GMT), according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It had a depth of 70.5 kilometers (43.8 miles).
The quakes shook the southern coast and interior of the region from Guatemala to Costa Rica, according local reports. Power outages were reported in El Salvador, and Nicaragua put out an internal alert announcing that schools would be closed on Tuesday.
Jorge Melendez, director of Civil Protection for El Salvador, said a homeless man was killed when he was hit by a power pole in San Miguel, a city 135 kilometers (84 miles) east of the capital.
The quake caused minor damage to the national hospital in San Miguel, as well as landslides on highways in the coastal state of Usulutan.
Lina Pohl, minister of the environment and national resources, issued a tsunami warning for residents along the coast, but Melendez said all appeared normal and that "it looks like the most dangerous situation has passed."
Pohl warned that residents should be prepared for aftershocks that could provoke landslides in areas soaked by several days of rain.
Officials in Costa Rica said the quakes were "strong and of long duration" there, but the country's Red Cross had no reports of major damage.
In Nicaragua, there were no signs of damage, according to government spokeswoman Rosario Murillo.


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I recently examined a beautiful 3 year old girl with an exotropia (an eye turned out). She had seen another optometrist a year ago and that doctor had recommended surgery to straighten her eyes, but mom didn't want her daughter to have surgery. After my exam, I felt that surgery was the best option, for several reasons: the eye turn has been present since birth; there is no significant refractive error causing the eye turn; the turn is large, constant, unilateral and outward; the associated amblyopia is getting worse.
I was about to launch into a one-sided patient education monologue on "why your daughter needs strabismus surgery," but for whatever reason, I began instead with a question, "why don't you want your little girl to have the surgery?" Mom's answer surprised me and it opened the door to a conversation, one in which we both learned a great deal.
"From what I've read, the surgery would only be cosmetic. She still wouldn't know how to use her eyes together and she might need multiple surgeries. I want her to have vision therapy."
I wanted to jump up and down and scream,"YES!!! YOU ARE RIGHT!!" Well, I refrained from jumping and screaming and I began to explain how treating her duaghter's eye turn had to consider both motor and sensory components. Once her daughter's are aligned motorically with surgery, then vision therapy could work on teaching her brain to use both eyes together (the sensory component) to keep them aligned. We talked for a long time and covered alot of ground. In the end, she agreed to consult with a surgeon.
I had assumed that mom didn't want her daughter to have the surgery because she didn't understand the problem and its sequelae. I will never make that mistake again. This mom taught me how important it is to reach out to our patients to better understand their values and their perspective. Now, we both know we are in this for the long-haul; it's not an easy fix. But we are definitely both focused on the same goal.
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Rataemane, L U Z, Department of Psychiatry, University of the Free State,Bloemfontein, South Africa
Vol 8, No 3 (2002) - Original Research
Alcohol use among sixth-year medical students at the University of the Free State
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Anglo-Eastern: Private equity bonus to managers
Hong Kong: The rise of private equity in shipping is a boon for shipmanagers, explains the ceo of Anglo-Eastern in today's Maritime CEO profile. Peter Cremers, the veteran ceo of one of the world's largest shipmanagers, observes that growth in his sector is coming from America.
"Money in shipping is coming from the US," he says. "Private equity is geared towards using shipmanagers."
Anglo-Eastern is also "riding on a wave" of existing clients who are investing again, Cremers says.
Excluding the 60 ships Anglo-Eastern has in partnership with Teekay, the Anglo-Eastern fleet under full technical management today stands at 460 vessels. It will take another 12 months or so before the firm celebrates the 500 mark, Cremers says.
This year Anglo-Eastern can boast fully 20,000 seafarers on its books. Training centres in New Delhi, Manila and Ukraine are being expanded accordingly with Cremers insisting: "We are absolutely convinced of the requirement for training." While he might have 20,000 seafarers today, Cremers muses, "In five to ten years time we have to make sure we still have a queue."
A key plea from clients these days visiting the Wan Chai offices of Anglo-Eastern is over bunker bills. "Owners want us to take much more control of fuel consumption," Cremers reports.
The Belgian national has been one of shipmanagement's greatest champions for a long time, and he feels the sector is now viewed as an essential ingredient within shipping.
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The renowned district Latur situated in the Indian State of Maharashtra has been blessed with Ausa. The place is located approximately 20 kilometers away from Latur metropolitan city and is, for the most part, a 'taluka' headquartering officially till date. Ausa also has a timeworn historic citadel which presently is in ruins. The habitation has an enormous place of worship dedicated to Virnath Maharaj, erected by his descendant Mallinath Maharaj about 3 centuries back.
The time when Ausa was a Taluka, the present day Latur district community was a small section falling under the governance and care of the Ausa Taluka. Today, Latur has grown and developed individually to become a full-fledged and functioning urban metropolitan city, Ausa remains true to its root. Till now, Ausa is still a Taluka with a population of over 2 lacs villagers. Ausa is also the proud beholder of an ancient fort which has been estimated to be developed around the 13th century.
You can avail from smooth transport from the major cities like Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Kolhapur, Sangli and Aurangabad to visit Ausa, Latur. Latur has its own railway station from where you can avail rickshaws, bus or taxicabs to reach Ausa.
You can visit Ausa to observe and admire the day to day life of the villagers living their ethnic ways of life and explore the heritage shrine Malynath Maharaj to explore the architecture of the 1200s. Also, you can visit the nearby village, Kharosa, which sports ancient caves which have beautiful sculptures of Hindu
mythological figures and is believed to have been there since the 6th century.
The weather and climate around Ausa are the most comfortable during the months between October and February. Temperature ranges between 13°C to 41°C. However, the best season to visit the Ausa would be winter season when the temperatures and humidity levels are pleasant and you can venture out without heavy winter gear.


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Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education BISE Peshawar official have declared the Inter Part BISE Peshawar Board Intermediate Date Sheet 2019 1st Year, 2nd Year FSc, ICS, ICom, FA classes so if you want to see online or wanna download the date sheet then this page will provide you what you want as this is a complete educational platform for all the audience looking for the solution of their problems regarding education. Intermediate is a very important class for all the students in Pakistan as this is the level from where you will move towards your targeted future means if you want to be a Doctor by profession in future then you have to select F.Sc Pre-Engineering and if you want to be a accountant then Icom is the best option well the thing is that student have to choose their relevant field from there.Normally the officials of the BISE announce the annual examination Date Sheet one month before the annual examination starting date well lets wait and see what happens this year.
Peshawar Board Intermediate Date Sheet 2019 1st Year, 2nd Year
If we look back to the few year then we come to know that the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Peshawar always announce the BISE Inter Part 1, 2 Date Sheet 2019 of the annual examination one month before the final examination as one month is enough for student to make their mind set according to the given date and time and also this time frame is enough for the revision so repeating their ritual this year also Peshawar Board Intermediate Date Sheet 2019 for the 1st Year Date Sheet as well as 2nd Year Date Sheet classes released almost one month before the final examination.
Peshawar Board FSc Date Sheet 2019 : Not Announced
Peshawar Board 1st Year Date Sheet 2019
in 1958 a meeting is called of the experts in the educational field and the motive is to discuss the educational problems facing by the students of the Peshawar as there is no individual Board or concerning body that should take the responsibility of the education and examination responsibilities so after the meeting in year the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Peshawar were established to facilitate the students of the Peshawar as well make sure of the quality education is reaching to every individual in the starting the Peshawar board is the only responsible authority that should take care of the educational issue in the whole province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and its tribal areas but after the number of student increased due to awareness of the education the more board is established to divide the burden of the Board and now it is time for the announcement of Peshawar Board 1st Year Date Sheet 2019.
Peshawar Board 2nd Year Date Sheet 2019
From the first day of its inception the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Peshawar is making its promise fulfilled by providing quality education to every student that is the reason that every year there is a huge number of students who enrolled under the supervision of the Peshawar board to sit in the annual examination of the Matric class as well as the Intermediate level. So all those students who are waiting for the BISE Peshawar Board 2nd Year Date Sheet 2019 i have a good news for those that the officials have declared the date sheet and according to the final date sheet declared the first exam of the intermediate level will be commence from the May 2019. You cal also download the Peshawar Board Intermediate Date Sheet 2019 1st Year, 2nd Year to your computer from this page easily by clicking the link above.


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