There is a welcome new addition to my favourite DJs when it comes to release mixes: Stanton Warriors. Yes, I know they’ve been around for ages and you can hardly ignore their remix chops, but thanks to my (home taping is killing music) habit of illegal downloads as a try-before-you-buy tactic, I’ve discovered the joy of:

The Stanton Sessions Vol III – which incidentally is over an hour long: ideal for my pathetic running speed when training for that 10k run I stupidly signed up for in April. So far I get to about 8.5k in an hour. If I lose 20 kilos, maybe I’ll get under the hour. Trouble is, the only way to do that right now would be to chop off a leg, which kind of defeats the object.

Speaking of which – to the gymnasium!

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If you use bacula for backing up your Linux boxes like I do, you might hit the same problem I did. This is just to record what I found for search engines to find, ‘cos it ain’t obvious and I haven’t seen it noted anywhere else.

In the Messages resource, the “Mail” record must be after the “MailCommand” one, otherwise the director will act as if it didn’t find your lovingly-crafted MailCommand. I was getting lots of emails with the subject of just “Bacula Message” when I could have sworn it should include some more details, like maybe whether the damned thing succeeded or failed. I haven’t found any other configuration resource that has this kind of order dependency.

(Despite this little hitch, I do highly recommend bacula. By the way, this little nugget is true at least in version 1.38, which is what you get in debian etch.)