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A handy dandy regular expression to parse out fields from Apache’s combined log format:

	/^(\S+)\s		# requestor
	(\S+)\s			# ?
	(\S+)\s			# ?
	\[([^\]]*)\]\s		# time
	"([^"]*)"\s		# URL
	(\d*)\s			# result
	(\d*)\s			# bytes
	"([^"]*)"\s		# referrer
    "([^"]*)"$/x    		# user agent

Barney came into our lives on Mothers day when I was in High School. He was my best friend, even posting in my senior pictures with me. After my parents divorced, he went to live with my Dad in Wisconson. I tried visited at least once a year, and he was always excited to see me.

He was hands-down the best dog I’ve ever had. He got along with everyone, including our cats. They used to sleep with him, and clean his face. In his later years he was my dad’s only constant companion.

The last few years were getting hard on him. It grew difficult for him to move around, especially during the winter. This past summer we decided that it would not be fair to him to make him suffer through another cold Wisconsin winter. His mind was still sharp but his body was not holding up. At the end, old age and cancer attacked him but he still kept his good spirits.

Yesterday at 8:30am, after more than 15 years of steadfast companionship, my dad took him to the vet where they put him to sleep. He’s now buried in the backyard of my dad’s lot, in his favorite spot under a tree, along with the pillow he slept with.

Farewell, faithful friend. I’ll miss you always.

We had a great time during our trip to New York City earlier this month.

The night we arrived, Adam & Matt from #linux on irc.arstechnica.com, took the train into down to meet us.

Together we braved the subway to Brooklyn where we feasted on some of the best pizza in the world:

The line was long but well-worth the wait:

Adam & Matt are, respectively, two of the smartest and funniest people I know. It was nice having a chance to split some pie and talk to them in person.

The next day Dena and I set out early. We knew we wanted to see the Statue of Liberty but neither of us thought we’d get so close. A ferry took u to Liberty Island where we spent a couple hours taking pictures and sampling food from street island vendors.

Afterwards, we took a short stop at Ellis Island. It was getting late in the day and our feet were killing us so we only stayed for about 45 minutes.

We strolled around Times Square, where we visited the “Toys R Us” store, where they charged us three times for our :

We made sure to take a stop at the remains of the World Trade Center. We saw Ladder Company 10, directly across from ground zero, roll out for a call:

and some interesting memories left behind:

On our last day, we had lunch at Tavern on the Green:

and took a stroll through Central Park:

Probably the strangest sight of all:

All in all we had a great, if tiring, time. You’ll have to excuse the strange blur visible in some of the pictures. It was only part-way through the weekend that I noticed the piece of lint on the inner glass of my good lense. I’m still sorting through pictures so stay tuned to my Flickr for updates.