diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 2b47792..3e53867 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ Job Configuration
 
 Jobs are defined using yaml files. Options may be specified either at the
 top-level or on individual seeds. A job id and at least one seed url
-must be specified, everything else is optional.
+must be specified, everything else is optional. For details, see
+`<job-conf.rst>`_.
 
 ::
 
diff --git a/brozzler/job.py b/brozzler/job.py
index ba259ec..85e955d 100644
--- a/brozzler/job.py
+++ b/brozzler/job.py
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ def new_site(frontier, site):
                 frontier.new_page(page)
                 logging.info("queued page %s", page)
             else:
-                logging.warn("seed url {} is blocked by robots.txt".format(site.seed))
+                logging.warn("seed url %s is blocked by robots.txt", site.seed)
         finally:
             # finally block because we want to insert the Site no matter what
             frontier.new_site(site)
diff --git a/brozzler/webconsole/static/partials/workers.html b/brozzler/webconsole/static/partials/workers.html
index 61f9a61..5f39c77 100644
--- a/brozzler/webconsole/static/partials/workers.html
+++ b/brozzler/webconsole/static/partials/workers.html
@@ -12,11 +12,19 @@
 <div>
     <h2>Workers</h2>
 
+    <p><i>This page depends on some deployment details outside of brozzler
+      itself, namely that port 8901 on each brozzler-worker is running
+      websockify bridging VNC running on the same host. The vagrant+ansible
+      configuration in the brozzler repo contains an example of that.
+      https://github.com/internetarchive/brozzler/tree/master/vagrant
+    </i></p>
+
     <div class="row">
         <div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-6 col-lg-6" ng-repeat="worker in workers">
+            <div>{{worker}}</div>
             <div>{{worker.host}}</div>
-            <iframe style="width:45rem;height:32rem;" 
-		    ng-src="{{'/static/noVNC/vnc.html?host=' + worker.host + '&port=8901&autoconnect=1&resize=downscale'}}">
+            <iframe style="width:45rem;height:32rem;"
+              ng-src="{{'/static/noVNC/vnc.html?host=' + worker.host + '&port=8901&autoconnect=1&resize=downscale'}}">
             </iframe>
         </div>
     </div>
diff --git a/job-conf.rst b/job-conf.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a073bed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/job-conf.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+brozzler job configuration
+==========================
+
+Jobs are defined using yaml files. Options may be specified either at the
+top-level or on individual seeds. A job id and at least one seed url
+must be specified, everything else is optional.
+
+an example
+----------
+
+::
+
+    id: myjob
+    time_limit: 60 # seconds
+    proxy: 127.0.0.1:8000 # point at warcprox for archiving
+    ignore_robots: false
+    enable_warcprox_features: false
+    warcprox_meta:
+      warc-prefix: job1
+      stats:
+        buckets:
+        - job1-stats
+    metadata: {}
+    seeds:
+    - url: http://one.example.org/
+      warcprox_meta:
+        warc-prefix: job1-seed1
+        stats:
+          buckets:
+          - job1-seed1-stats
+    - url: http://two.example.org/
+      time_limit: 30
+    - url: http://three.example.org/
+      time_limit: 10
+      ignore_robots: true
+      scope:
+        surt: http://(org,example,
+
+how inheritance works
+---------------------
+
+Most of the available options apply to seeds. Such options can also be
+specified at the top level, in which case the seeds inherit the options. If
+an option is specified both at the top level and at the level of an individual
+seed, the results are merged with the seed-level value taking precedence in
+case of conflicts. It's probably easiest to make sense of this by way of an
+example.
+
+In the example yaml above, ``warcprox_meta`` is specified at the top level and
+at the seed level for the seed http://one.example.org/. At the top level we
+have::
+
+  warcprox_meta:
+    warc-prefix: job1
+    stats:
+      buckets:
+      - job1-stats
+
+At the seed level we have::
+
+    warcprox_meta:
+      warc-prefix: job1-seed1
+      stats:
+        buckets:
+        - job1-seed1-stats
+
+The merged configuration as applied to the seed http://one.example.org/ will
+be::
+
+    warcprox_meta:
+      warc-prefix: job1-seed1
+      stats:
+        buckets:
+        - job1-stats
+        - job1-seed1-stats
+
+Notice that:
+
+- There is a collision on ``warc-prefix`` and the seed-level value wins.
+- Since ``buckets`` is a list, the merged result includes all the values from
+  both the top level and the seed level.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index de5c821..047a2e2 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def find_package_data(package):
 
 setuptools.setup(
         name='brozzler',
-        version='1.1b6.dev85',
+        version='1.1b6.dev86',
         description='Distributed web crawling with browsers',
         url='https://github.com/internetarchive/brozzler',
         author='Noah Levitt',
diff --git a/vagrant/vagrant-brozzler-new-job.py b/vagrant/vagrant-brozzler-new-job.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..767091b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vagrant/vagrant-brozzler-new-job.py
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+'''
+vagrant-brozzler-new-job.py - runs brozzler-new-job inside the vagrant vm to
+queue a job for your vagrant brozzler deployment.
+
+This is a standalone script with no dependencies other than python, and should
+work with python 2.7 or python 3.2+. The only reason it's not a bash script is
+so we can use the argparse library.
+'''
+
+import sys
+import os
+import argparse
+import subprocess
+
+def main(argv=[]):
+    arg_parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog=os.path.basename(argv[0]))
+    arg_parser.add_argument(
+            'job_conf_file', metavar='JOB_CONF_FILE',
+            help='brozzler job configuration file in yaml')
+    args = arg_parser.parse_args(args=argv[1:])
+
+    with open(args.job_conf_file, 'rb') as f:
+        yaml_bytes = f.read()
+        subprocess.call(
+                ['vagrant', 'ssh', '--', 'f=`mktemp` && cat > $f'],
+                stdin=yaml_bytes)
+
+    # cd to path with Vagrantfile so "vagrant ssh" knows what to do
+    os.chdir(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main(sys.argv)
+
+## # cd to path with Vagrantfile so "vagrant ssh" knows what to do
+## script_dir="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
+## cd $script_dir
+## 
+## vagrant ssh -- \
+##         PYTHONPATH=/home/vagrant/brozzler-ve34/lib/python3.4/site-packages \
+##         /home/vagrant/brozzler-ve34/bin/python \
+##         /home/vagrant/brozzler-ve34/bin/brozzler-new-job "$@"
diff --git a/vagrant/vagrant-brozzler-new-site.py b/vagrant/vagrant-brozzler-new-site.py
index 7e073aa..9986fef 100755
--- a/vagrant/vagrant-brozzler-new-site.py
+++ b/vagrant/vagrant-brozzler-new-site.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 vagrant-brozzler-new-site.py - runs brozzler-new-site inside the vagrant vm to
 queue a site for your vagrant brozzler deployment.
 
-Fills in the --proxy option automatically. some other options are passed
+Fills in the --proxy option automatically. Some other options are passed
 through.
 
 This is a standalone script with no dependencies other than python, and should