November 2008
71 posts
Gmail has been down a lot for me lately. Going to the science museum instead of worrying about it.
Rails 2.3: Backtrace Silencing →
Cleaner backtraces for Rails! Rejoice!
The Other Half of "Artists Ship" →
A sensible essay about restrictions on software releases by Paul Graham.
Sankey Diagrams →
Graph porn. Awesome.
HistoryShots: History of the Political Parties →
Coolest infographic of alltime. Along with its “parties2” companion.
“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from...”
– Thomas Jefferson
Just heard the term “Avian Holocaust Day”. Love it.
Sitting in a random parking lot, reading and waiting for her to get off work. Mandatory holiday work is crap.
Jeff Russell's STARSHIP DIMENSIONS →
A comparison of the dimensions of various fictional space vessels. Visualizations like this are always fun.
ScreenRecycler →
A Mac OS X app that will create a virtual display that can be connected to via VNC.
How to fix that Rubygems mess on Leopard →
This might finally get Rails working on my laptop.
Civic Literacy Report - Civics Quiz →
29/33 — 87.88%. It was harder than I was expecting.
Spacehack →
A directory of ways to participate in space exploration.
Capitalism Without Guilt: The Moral Case for... →
Could be interesting.
More personal information dieting going into effect. TechCrunch will be among the casualties.
Tack Sharp →
This could be good.
I am very appreciative of the %(…) String literal construct in Ruby. It’s delicious.
SourceForge.net: SynergyKM →
Nice GUI for synergy and synergys. Saves me from some manual headache.
Career happiness is a complete lack of professional sacrifice.
Realizing that I miss the few good things LA has.
The Great British Euler Diagram →
Awesome clarifications.
Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective →
This is neat.
Ruby on Rails guides →
These look like excellent resources for beginniners and experts alike.
Zippy: rubyzip for dummies →
Neat tool.
Ruby is wonderful. In other news, mini vacation to LA for warmer weather this weekend.
Heroku - Full-service Rails hosting →
This looks like an excellent idea. I wonder how well it’ll hold up, though.
Average Weather for Honolulu, HI - Temperature and... →
Why don’t I live there?
Rail Spikes: Is your Rails application safe from... →
Good to keep in mind.
Cold and restless. Desiring a vacation in a warm climate.
Leap →
A possible Finder replacement for OS X.
Choosy - A smarter default browser for Mac OS X →
Neat idea. I could use this with Fluid to keep sites where I want them.
Peeve: when people don’t check the email address they’re sending to so end up sending it to the person’s personal email instead of work.
Winding down after a crazy and fun weekend.
GOOD Sheet - The First 100 Days →
Awesome visualization of recent US presidential history.
How To Prepare a Mac For Sale →
Some good things to know.
We should never revere a person as such, but only incidentally as a direct result of individual acts or theories.
Why is it “dual-core”, “quad-core” and “8-core”? “octo-core” sounds so much cooler.
Why Time Machine in 10.5.2 doesn't work over the... →
One of a few articles that helped me get Time Machine backing up to a network share on my Linux box.
Force start a Time Machine backup →
Another useful command to have around when trying to get Time Machine working.
Convergence 08 →
Wish I could go to this.
Adobe CS4: Yet another lousy Adobe installer →
Ugh, what a train wreck.
2 Hot Girls in the Shower →
One of these was pretty decent; will have to watch them all.
Got Time Machine backing up to a samba share on Linux. It took a bit of elbow grease.
Exceptional | Exception tracking and managing for... →
Neat idea. We have our own internal system, but this would certainly save some time for a new Rails app.
Contrast | We do web apps | We're pretty good →
Some nice stuff coming from these guys.
Causes Profile: Joe Green on the Do-Good Widget →
Some video footage of our office, replete with Kristján in a tux and a bizarre release name on the stats screen.
The Rails source flaunts flagrant disregard for the 80-character boundary. How rude.
HIGH: The true tale of American Marijuana →
I like the logo with the flag pattern behind the leaf. Also, obviously good and sensible information.