[x]inetd nargery

I've been thinking about the way Spurge works, and how it should be debianised.  Do any of you have strong opinions as to whether services whose traffic is not great should

1. be launched from inetd or xinetd?
2. listen for themselves?
3. be able to do both, and the administrator can choose according to expected load?  This appears to combine the faults of both schemes.

Pros and cons:

• The process is constantly running with (2), and not with (1).  Then again, if you're only running [x]inetd in order to run one service, you're running one extra process all the time anyway.
• Configuration (by the user or the package) is far simpler with (2), especially because xinetd and inetd have different configuration file formats.
• with (2), the service has to be capable of handling simultaneous connections in-house, whereas this isn't necessary with (1).
• (1) has an extra dependency.

What are your thoughts?

I think bucktooth might be a vaguely comparable system to look at.  (It uses xinetd.)

stuff and nonsense

Rio and I went for a walk and found a lost dog without a collar.  While we were walking it around, it went to a house and sat outside it, so we decided it must belong there.

We all had a good long talk with Katie on IM tonight.  It was so good to see her face again.

I should make an OKCupid test called "What kind of formal verse are you?"

My referrer logs indicate that I am the fourth Google image search hit for "naked dancing", though the page was not actually about naked dancing at all (it was about psoriasis, and I was complaining that it made my skin hurt where my clothes touched it, and that I therefore envied anyone who could dance about naked).

I have decided that the Yarrow-ification of my blog has been a success.  You can read individual entries, years, months, random articles, or tags and subtags.  I still need to get it to syndicate stuff off my Dreamwidth journal, but that's not far away.  (Do note that the skin won't be the same when it's all done: it just has the standard Yarrow skin at present.)  It's been so successful for me that I wonder whether other people would be interested in using it.

I am feeling very, very tired tonight.