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	<title>Journal de Jacques</title>
	<link>http://chester.id.au</link>
	<description>Stuff I write. Things that happen to me.</description>
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		<title>An XCache &#8216;gotcha&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[XCache is a PHP opcode cacher. This is good and well as it speeds up pageloads by removing PHP parsing overhead. On the downside, you must remember to restart your PHP processes after changing PHP files, as XCache doesn&#8217;t seem to perform stat()s on the files to check if they&#8217;ve been updated.]]></description>
		<link>http://chester.id.au/2010/08/11/an-xcache-gotcha/</link>
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		<title>Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s WWA Grand Prix #3 was a good day for yours truly. I won the gold for most-improved Sinclair and took second place for the premier cup. Snatch 90kg, Clean &#038; Jerk 130kg, total 220kg. Just as Jack Walls predicted. Update: Turns out I am the bronze medallist. Geish Hori is the silver medallist. A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chester.id.au/2010/08/08/success/</link>
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		<title>Brian&#8217;s Latest Comments doesn&#8217;t scale.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or, to be fair, MySQL 3.x is rubbish. But you knew that already. Most of the blogs on the Ozblogistan network use BLC. Recently, Larvatus Prodeo came on board and expected it to work for them too. But it simply hung without giving much in the way of error message. I pottered around with it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chester.id.au/2010/08/06/brians-latest-comments-doesnt-scale/</link>
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		<title>More tweaking for Ozblogistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I did some minor optimisations on Ozblogistan last weekend. I have HTTP compression enabled on the webserver (gzip, to be precise). I found out through the excellent YSlow plugin that not everything was being compressed. HTML was compressed, but not style sheets or scripts. The nginx settings are now as follows: gzip on; gzip_buffers 128 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chester.id.au/2010/08/06/more-tweaking-for-ozblogistan/</link>
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		<title>WordPress import/export is still pants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It still chokes on &#8216;large&#8217; files due to causing massive blooms of memory consumption. The XML parser implementation used insists on loading the whole file at once. This is a recipe for PHP choking a modest VPS. A WXR splitter (there are several) is pretty much required. Why doesn&#8217;t WordPress perform this task itself? It&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chester.id.au/2010/07/24/wordpress-importexport-is-still-pants/</link>
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		<title>Guilty pleasures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia&#8217;s Next Top Model is back. I recommend following each episode with bracing doses of Bland Canyon and Jo-Jo Blogs.]]></description>
		<link>http://chester.id.au/2010/07/20/guilt-pleasures/</link>
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		<title>New Zealand has better IT policy than Australia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Firstly, they don&#8217;t have Stephen Conroy. Secondly, they&#8217;re not going to introduce software patents. NZ: 2. Australia: Sux.]]></description>
		<link>http://chester.id.au/2010/07/15/new-zealand-has-better-it-policy-than-australia/</link>
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		<title>Sara Lee &#8220;Beef&#8221; Lasagne</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found one of these in the freezer outside and cooked it. The packaging says it&#8217;s made with &#8220;100% Australian beef&#8221;. By &#8216;beef&#8217; they mean that a cow managed to wander into the factory once. They had to herd it out past the lasagne department. &#8220;I have a great idea!&#8221;, says the marketing chief. There [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chester.id.au/2010/07/15/sara-lee-beef-lasagne/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m moving back to Darwin.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since leaving The Frontier Group in late June I&#8217;ve been watching the job lines and shooting off resumes here and there. I&#8217;ve been to a few interviews, had a few offers, but now I&#8217;ve decided to take a job at CDU in Darwin. When I sent my resume to CDU, I didn&#8217;t hear back from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chester.id.au/2010/07/13/im-moving-back-to-darwin/</link>
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		<title>How to run an opensource project.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Step 1: Create a direct financial incentive to produce a buggy, security-hole-ridden, backwards but oh-so-shiny piece of poop. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit.]]></description>
		<link>http://chester.id.au/2010/04/01/how-to-run-an-opensource-project/</link>
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