Two weeks into the New Year, and four weeks since I got back from
Thailand, I finally get round to updating this thing. By
“updating”, I don’t just mean posting. Gojira the One-Lung
Webserver has had an overhaul as well: I’ve added some more RAM,
caught up with the last couple of months’ worth of Windows 2000
patches, updated to the latest versions of PHP, MySQL, WordPress,
and Cygwin. (Tip: If you’re running PHP and MySQL on
Windows, be sure to get rid of the libMySQL.dll that
comes with PHP — because it’s crap — and to use the version that
comes with MySQL instead.)
So… 2006 was a pretty decent year, with a number of positive changes:
- I got to see my daughter grow up some more. She’s just more amazing every time I see her.
- I got out of the hell-hole of a house that I’d lived in for 3 years. I must admit that I had some mixed emotions about that. I’d lived there …