vortex’s blog

Well, While I’ve clearly posted here in the recent past, none of it has been that interesting for people who aren’t in the IT space and working with either PHP or Solaris.. So here’s an attempt at bringing people up to speed on what ELSE has been going on
Back on the first of [...]

Here’s my slides from my presentation ‘Improving PHP Application Performance with APC’ at OSDC! My presentation went very well, I was very happy with how it went considering it was my first presentation at a conference. Next time, I need to prepare a little more, put in a little more information, and slow down my [...]

Been a while since I posted here, but I thought this was worthy of a mention: Tomorrow the Open Source Developers Conference (OSDC) begins in Sydney - and I’m quite nervous
I’m presenting my talk ‘Improving PHP Application Peformance with APC’ at the conference on Wednesday - my first conference and my first presentation, [...]

Sold the FC, finally. I took the first serious offer I had, and the new owner got one hell of a bargain! I hope he gets as much enjoyment out of it as I did
Anyway, let the FD hunt begin

Well, my FC has been on the market for a while now, and I’ve had almost no interest. There’s been over 300 views of the ad on Carsales, and yet I’ve had 4 calls and 2 SMS’s and exactly 0 people come to look at it.
Perhaps it’s just a bad time to sell a car, [...]

So.. After looking at some awesome photo’s of Series 8 FD’s online, I’m seriously considering an FD over the FC.. Higher outlay, but infinately awesome car.
Possibly be easier to make it ‘quickest street registered rotary around mallala’, too. At least the turbo I bought will still be useful
Sigh, why am I so indecisive?

Recently I’ve been fortunate enough to be offered a speakers position at OSDC 2008, in Sydney. I will be presenting a talk on ‘Improving PHP Application performance with APC’, a topic i’ve blogged a little about in the past.
I’m a little nervous about it, i’ve never done any public speaking before, but I’m also looking [...]

I’ve come to the decision recently to take my Series 4 RX7 to the next level..
I came so close to selling it, but when I posted it I just couldnt go through with it. It also co-incided with the 2008 SA Rotors Birthday Cruise, I remembered I was a Rotor-head, through and through.. I was [...]

Well the 2008 City of Adelaide Titles at the Southern Sprint Kart Club have been run and won, and finally I had a meeting where the luck went my way!
I was racing in the locally well support Sportsman SA class, and we had less than ideal preparation in the lead up to the meeting; I [...]

As most geeks are, I’m a huge fan of Sci-Fi. Specifically my favourite has been Stargate SG-1; it takes pride of place in my DVD collection and i’ve watched all 10 series a number of times now.
For that reason I was saddened today to hear that the actor that plays General Hammond, Don S. Davis [...]