The Nutcracker
We took Aubrey, Alyssa and Jenna to the Nutcracker Monday night. It is part of our effort to expose our children to culture. Devin doesn’t like ballet and utterly refused to go…
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Top Ten Reasons to Use Windows Vista
I have a mac. I love my mac. I run VMWare so that I can use Windows as needed like when I need to test Internet Explorer because apparently a lot of people out there are still…
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Thanks Expercom
I bought an STM bag about a week ago and took it on one trip. When I got back the shoulder strap had a huge tear in it. I’m not especially rough on bags. I basically carried the…
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Words Fail Me
http://www.kutv.com/content/news/watercooler/story.aspx?content\_id=fb5ec53b-e22b-47eb-8a03-0d06ad4c4fbf
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STM Bags Suck?
I am hoping this is an isolated instance. I went on a business trip this last week to Chicago. I didn’t have a laptop case so on Monday I rushed down to Expercom to buy something…
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More Stuff You Shouldn’t Hit on a Bike
Just ran into this: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/09/bear-vs-bike-bicycle-cyclist-missoula-montana.php I guess after hitting a rattle snake on the bike you start to see all…
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Photos From Obama Rally in Grant Park
I just happen to be in Chicago today and I just happened to be close to Grant Park. Given those two circumstances you can’t help but visit this historic rally. Here are the…
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Farewell COSL
For sometime now I have known that my time at COSL was running out. I wasn’t sure exactly when it would expire, but last Friday basically became my last day. I know that there…
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Some Cool House Plans
Just playing with Theplancollection.com this morning and noticed a couple of new plans that I thought looked pretty cool so I am sharing: This one looks like something you’d see…
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My Junkfood Goeth Quietly Into the Night
The world is coming to an end. The current financial crisis has taken its tole on a staple of my diet – Mother’s Animal Cookies has gone bankrupt. First we loose Snelgrove’s Ice…
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My Bike Wreck Could Have Been Worse
Instead of a snake this guy had a branch flip up and go through his leg. The pictures are gruesome enough to make me want to hurl and make my accident look like a little scratch…
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It’s Your Head Not Your Butt That Matters
I’ve been writing code all day, again. Luckily I enjoy writing software. There are moments when I and the computer don’t get along. On those days I consider becoming a garbage man…
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Marginal Improvements Make People Happy
I saw a recent post on Slashdot that got my attention – What Google Engineers do for Fun: Computerized Lego Art Project. I have to admit I am a total Lego nut so whenever I see…
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New Apple Laptops – I’m so Excited
I’ve been wanting to buy a Macbook pro for a while now. I hate to be yet another one of those Apple nuts but I have been waiting for Oct 14 ever since the rumor came out that…
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ERROR: While executing gem (ArgumentError) Illformed requirement
I like to use to deploy my applications because of its simplicity. The other nice thing is that they give you free developer space so if you are just getting an application up and…
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Using Shoulda to test login – should_require_login
I’ve had my problems with shoulda, but one very powerful component of the testing framework is the ability to create macros. Here’s one that checks to make sure a user has to be…
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Amazon S3, Jungle Disk and the new way to backup
Not long ago I wrote a rather unflattering review of Mozy. I feel bad in a way because I still believe that the concept is good. I haven’t played with the software recently but I…
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Trek Project One Launched?
Now that my current bike is a few months old my attention turns once again to bike adultery. I keep reading that the new Project One site is up, but when I visit the site I still…
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Luvfoo – Open Source Ruby on Rails Social Network Platform
For lack of a better place to put this right now I am posting the roadmap for the Ruby on Rails social network we are building here. There has been quite a lot of interest in the…
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Why Cyclists Shave Their Legs. The Most Disgusting Post I Will Ever Make
It’s now a bit more than two weeks since I had an unfortunate incident with a serpent. While the leg is actually healing quite nicely I the joy of bending my knee has become a…