I rode out to Porcupine this morning. I spent the first half the ride cussing at my Polar CS600 since it ‘couldn’t find the sensors’ and the screen kept going out. You’d think that changing a battery wouldn’t be such a dramatic experience. I went out to Porcupine dam which is a great morning ride…
Month: August 2010
Why Do We Eat This Crap?
There’s an article on the front page of KSL today that examines why we crave the stuff that’s bad for us. Most people feel that they are overweight because they eat to much and that’s true, but to much is hard to judge anymore. If you talk to most people they will tell you the…
Polar CS600 Error 169
I have a Polar CS600 that I use to monitor my rides. I love it except for when it comes time to change the battery. This seemingly simple exercise is much harder than it should be. I’ve attempted to change the battery a number of times. It’s an odd CR2354 button cell that is hard…
I Spent My Day With Hot, Young Girls
Well, at the first of the day they were cold young girls then we went to Bear Lake and it was pretty hot. My wife is girl’s camp director which means she gets to spend 6 months planning for a week long event. She is really good at what she does and it always goes…
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: Mysql::Error: Got error 139 from storage engine
I ran into a ‘fun’ error with an application I’ve been working on. Everything was running fine and then one day hoptoad started filling up with exceptions like this: ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: Mysql::Error: Got error 139 from storage engine I hate errors like that. Lucky for me there’s Google: http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?22,63584,166521#msg-166521 http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=10035 Turns out that each row in…
jQuery Ajax requests are ‘html’ not ‘js’
I like jQuery. I use it in all my Rails projects these days. One thing I’ve struggled with for the longest time is that for some reason all my jQuery ajax requests come through as html not as js. I thought adding something like this to application.js would fix the problem: // In application.js jQuery.ajaxSetup({…
increment! and Mysql::Error: Lock
On a site I’m working on I started noticed a lot of production errors like this: ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: Mysql::Error: Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction: UPDATE users SET counter = 2, updated_at = ‘2010-08-05 20:54:26’ WHERE id = 1234 I traced the error back to a call in the user model: update_attribute(:start_time, DateTime.now) increment!(:counter) </pre>…
Get Apple Time Capsule to work with Comcast
I bought an Apple Time Capsule after my HP 495EX failed to backup my Macs reliably. I was excited since it replaced an old Linksys that didn’t have wireless-n. I figured it would be a fast switch. I was wrong. I spend several hours configuring the router and couldn’t figure out why it wouldn’t connect….