Late Late Show: Mumford & Sons – The Cave http://youtu.be/mllqig6frfw #fb #

A cronjob shall run a script and write it’s output to a new logfile every day. Easy, right?
0 2 * * * echo test > test.`date +%Y-%m-%d`

This will create a file called “test.“, that will be overwritten every day …and here is why (from man crontab):
“Percent-signs (%) in the command, unless escaped with backslash (\), [...]

At work we have a script, that rsyncs a bunch of files from one server to the other, nothing special. The script works perfectly when run manually from a shell, but does not when run via crontab. The error message does not really point to anything:
no: command not found
What is the “no” command and why [...]

http://twitpic.com/14k5sv – Awesome weather today. Winter: your days are coming to am end! #fb #
"Gamer" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034032 … "Death Race" meets "Dollhouse" #fb #
RT @rands Sitting in the middle of a jungle in Nowheresville-ohini Hawaii and my 3g signal is 5x better than San Francisco. #
http://twitter.com/DalaiLama. yep, that is all I wanted to say. #
The Frame: [...]

Last week I discovered Listen, yet another music player/database written in Python for the Gnome desktop. I tweeted it and I think it looks quite nice; has issues though, so I decided to jump in and fix some stuff. For example the cover fetch from Amazon. Amazon decided to require a signature for each REST [...]

want to work with bazaar or launchpad? read this http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com and this https://help.launchpad.net/Code/UploadingABranch #
RT @CraigyFerg http://tweetphoto.com/11622968 the throw pillow in my office. #
RT @CraigyFerg http://tweetphoto.com/11720962 Helena Bonham Carter during a commercial break. Girl is batshit crazy. I loved her #
RT @NathanFillion I like falling asleep in the make up chair because I wake up [...]

RT @HannoSettele strom wieder da. aber no tv or net. 1 down, 2 to go. #snow #
what the… http://hiphopwired.com/2010/02/08/sarah-palin-caught-with-notes-on-hand-during-speech-video-included #palin #fb #
"pinta" open source paint.net clone based on mono/gtk+ http://www.reddit.com/tb/azumc #fb #
RT @mike_elgan: Polish newspaper claims 'Pedobear' is a 2010 Vancouver Olympic mascot. http://bit.ly/dzbhKo #
RT @IMDb Tom Cruise has signed on for Mission Impossible IV! [...]

RT @Danny_DeVito http://twitpic.com/1159g9 – "Ich weiss auch nicht was es ist meine Dame, aber es isst mein Popcorn #
RT @THEsaragilbert Someone on American idol just said they were born in 1993. What? #
RT @HannoSettele Die orchesterierte Toyota-Vernichtung geht weiter. [.] nie gesehen, das ist neu. 7 Jahre in USA, [.] eine neue Qualität. #

RT @tweetmeme RainyMood.com http://bit.ly/1pEoI #
RT @Serienjunkies Lost: Der Absturz von Oceanic 815 in Realtime http://tinyurl.com/ydjas4j #
RT @HannoSettele 3 Jahre alt, aber gut, sehr gut: http://bit.ly/FSAu6 — really good, so sad. #

Found another issue with Net::MySQL (after this one). Why are we using that again? Ah yes, it’s pure Perl and we hate compiling modules. Well, you get what you pay for.
When inserting a lot of data it is better to create one huge insert statement then thousands of small ones. When you do that you [...]