Lighttpd, the smaller, better, new httpd, has just had version 1.4.8 released today. Mostly a bugfix, but worth upgrading. Took a few minutes for me, and went perfectly smooth. Lighttpd keeps quietly accumulating new features; if you haven’t taken a look at it in a month or two, as was my case, you might be pleasantly surprised by new access-logging and traffic-shaping options that have recently appeared. Still no way (apparently) to get it to log hostnames, but other than that, it’s just about the perfect Apache replacement.

WARNING
Contents under pressure. Cap may blow off causing eye or other serious injury. Point away from face and people, especially while opening.

What is this warning on? A firework? A bottle of champagne? Some kind of pressurized fuel or something?

Nope. It’s a bottle of diet 7-up. Not only does this Splenda-sweetened beverage taste like sewer water, it carries one of the most ridiculous warnings I’ve seen on a consumer product recently. I mean, I knew soft drinks were bad for you, but “eye or other serious injury”? Should clerks be checking the age of people buying this foul-tasting swill? That warning is worse that the Surgeon General warning on most domestic beer, for crying out loud!

Sheesh…