Lately I’ve gotten re-interested in the Ruby On Rails framework. It’s not only because of it’s sort of… “new hotness” that’s out there on the net, but it’s got a lot of neat technologies that are being used. Also this is all close enough to the work on webapps that I’m used to doing, but […]
Geeking Out on Ruby On Rails and Heroku Read Post »
Now with ASCII art…. how awesome was it to find this in my inbox just now: From: Stdenny Corning Subject: Nothing can seduce women faster than a… To: anything@arcterex.net Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:01:44 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19(Windows/20081209) Message-ID: This is yoour penis: 8–o This is yoour penis on drugs: 8=====O Anny questions? [spammy
I Just Got The Best Piece of Spam… Read Post »
Random pic I found while surfing… check out Burj Dubai 2009 over at Chromasia. Very sweet!
Random Awesome Picture Read Post »
Funny introduction to twitter in the video twouble with twitters. Thanks for the link Len (who doesn’t get it either).
An Introduction to Twitter Read Post »
So for some reason my home built Apple Time Capsule started giving me problems, errors about “operation not permitted” and such, and not backing up. Being that I’m becoming more and more backup conscious lately, I let this go on for a month or two before I finally broke down and tried to find a
Updates to My Home-Brew Time Capsule with Linux and Samba (Now with AFP) Read Post »
Not a huge deal, but another thing that came to mind while watching this screencast on the new features in Mozilla Firefox 3.1. Depending on what video sharing site you go to, be it YouTube, Vimeo, etc they all have different embedded video widgets, with different controls, different ways of reacting, etc. Why not a
Things to Fix on the Web Part 3 – Native Video Read Post »
My brother-in-law got himself (for some reason, through some strange set of events understood only to him I think), a BlackBerry Storm, BlackBerry’s “iPhone killer” (or at least, answer to the iPhone). I know I’m really late to the party, but I wanted to air a couple of quick thoughts about it. Full disclosure, I’m
First Go With the BlackBerry Storm Read Post »
Went to the Fraser Valley Ruby on Rails meetup tonight. Organized by a guy who now works under one of my ex-bosses from back in the dot com days, basically a group of geeks interested in the Ruby on Rails framework who get together and geek out. I’ve only been to two meetings so far,
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Half the random videos that see posted are on Youtube (which is fine) and the other half seem to be from either Hulu, The Daily Show or Comedy Central. If you go to the former, you get a page which is then eclipsed by a big ass popup saying basically “you’re not in the US,
Things to Fix on the Web Part 2 – Location Read Post »
Seriously, this is nuts. Andrea calls me this afternoon at work and says there are “6 inches of snow at home”. I of course call bullshit as there’s nothing bug a light rain at work in Vancouver. Even halfway home on the train I was thinking that the snow was still no more than an