Ingredients 1 pound lean ground beef 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce 1 egg 2 tbsp ketchup 1 clove garlic 1 tsp sea salt 1/2 small onion diced fine 1/2 small green pepper diced fine 1 tsp sugar 1/4 tsp black pepper 1 clove garlic diced fine 1 tsp extra virgin olive oil Directions Combine the onion, […]
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Nine-month update
Rylan is just about 9 months old so we’re able to get out a bit more. Today we took some pictures at the park.
Add a pageview column with Jetpack data source
I decided to get with the times and give Jetpack a try. If you’re unfamiliar with Jetpack, it’s essentially a WordPress plugin which ties your self-hosted WordPress blog to WordPress.com’s servers and allows nifty features like an image CDN, Gravatar hovercards, centralized comments, and a multitude of other features. Personally, I love the WordPress.com stats […]
Send load average to Graphite
#!/bin/bash LOAD=`cat /proc/loadavg | awk ‘{print $1}’` DATETIME=`date +%s` echo “some.system.metric.name $LOAD $DATETIME” | nc graphite.somedomain.com 2003
Slow Cooked Curry Chicken
It’s been a while since I published a recipe – to be honest, it’s been a while since I wrote a recipe and just as long since I did any serious cooking. I’ve just been so busy working and writing code that I haven’t had a chance to write anything else. Tina has also really […]
Graphite Graphs for WordPress
It’s no secret that I love Graphite. My co-workers think it’s a bit ridiculous how much data I feed into our graphite server. I may be a bit excessive, but I have a monitor in my office which allows me to see at a glance every little detail about our network in real time – […]