Musical Nostalgia

It’s happened. I’m officially old. I’m looking about the contemporary musical landscape, and most bands are coming up short against the bands of my youth. I miss Grunge. Well, not really Grunge per se, but the ethos & certain bands. I miss the manic creativity and conflicted stardom of Nirvana. I miss Kurt Cobain’s anguished [...]

To my Mum, on International Women’s Day

My Mum, Dr. Rosemary Tannock, is one of my heroes. I don’t actually know too much of her early life, but I know it was not a particularly easy life – her father, my grandfather, never returned from World War II, and things were unsettled. She studied to be an Occupational Therapist in the UK, [...]

Coldfusion Java.lang.ThreadDeath

Of  late, we’ve stared seeing a raft of errors of type “java.lang.theadDeath” on our Coldfusion-based servers. In every case, these errors were generated by the CFSchedule User Agent, meaning that scheduled tasks were triggering them. Of more interest, they were, with 1 exception, being thrown by a scheduled CFPOP call to handle email newsletter bounce-backs [...]