Today, I decided that I would make homemade pickles.

I put a jalapeño in the mix for good measure. Now I have to wait a couple weeks for them to ferment and become awesome.

Update: It wound up being too cold in my house for the pickles to ferment, so I just have some salty, spicy cucumbers now. They are pretty tasty, but they aren't pickles. I will try again when it gets warmer.

Update: I have now added git-http-backend into this mix to allow cloning of these repositories over https. This complicated things quite a bit more than my original posting.

I have recently undergone the enterprise of switching all of my web servers from apache2 to nginx. I don't have anything in particular against apache2, but it uses much more memory and I don't really need most of its features.

This transition went smoothly for the most part, with the exception of converting my web-accessible git interface using gitweb. I found a few guides on the topic but nothing that worked quite the way I wanted it to.

First of all, I have made some alterations to the default gitweb.conf:

I cannot stand the way gitweb does uris by default, but the "nicer uris" was where most of the headache came from when I was moving to nginx. Here is the nginx configuration I settled on:

Hopefully this comes in handy to someone else trying to do such a setup.

I have finally gotten around to putting my first android app on the market. It still needs a lot of work but it was mostly a test to see if I could stand Java enough to make a fully functioning application. You can find the app on AppBrain or the official market (if you are on an android phone). For an explanation of the game, check the Wikipedia.

I really wish t-mobile would sell plans with fewer minutes.