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2 Weeks in Rails (October 10, 2008)
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October 21, 2008 – 8:42 pm
2 Weeks in Rails (October 10, 2008)
from: Riding Rails - home
I love this idea:
City fights illegal gig posters with CANCELLED stickers - from Boing Boing
The city council of Glasgow is fighting illegal handbills with science: they’re paying city workers to go around and stick “cancelled” stickers on all the illegal gig posters put up around town.
And they have already had an impact on some rogue [...]
A belated congrats to the team at Fedora for releasing version 7 of their distribution recently.
I figured it was only fair to post on this since I recently promoted the latest releases of my distros of choice (Debian 4 and Ubuntu 7.04). I haven’t really had time to check out Fedora 7 yet, but it [...]
This is very likely to be the only animal video you will ever see here, but it is too cool to pass up. Make sure to watch for the comeback towards the end.
So I was at Home Depot today, just wrapping up and checking out in one of the self-checkout lanes (which I love and every store should have), when this lady walks up to me and …
HD Employee: “You need to take your headphones out of at least one of your ears. It’s a new rule; [...]
Small houses challenge our notions of need as well as minimum-size standards
Down a rambling residential road on the outskirts of Sebastopol, the dream house sits like a testament to discriminating taste.
This dream house is the love child of artist-builder Jay Shafer, who lovingly hand-crafted it. The stainless-steel kitchen, gleaming next to the natural wood interior, [...]
Outside Office
Inside OfficeI’m fortunate in my job to be able to work from home often.
It’s kind of seasonal, based on the phase of the projects I’m working on; sometimes I’ll need to go into the office for more meetings, etc., but when it’s time for more heavy coding I can avoid the office, which I [...]
I may have mentioned this before, but I don’t really like pets at all. If you are a pet lover, you may not want to read the rest of this. If you choose to do so, I apologize in advance for offending you.
If it weren’t for the kids’ desire to have pets, we would definitely [...]
Every now and then I need to remind myself of this simple truth:
<Censored version>Don’t argue on the internet; it’s stupid.</Censored version>
PS - This remark is not intended to any insult any people who may actually be stupid.