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Archive for September, 2006

      

Last day

Well, after several months of hiring, transition and general ramp up for my own enterprise, today is finally my last day as an employee of ALT Fabrication. I’m not sure it feels all that monumental right at the moment, but it definitely going to be a change. I’ve come close to leaving several [...]

Friday, September 29th, 2006. Posted in Work | No Comments »>

USDSL

Or, to the layman, Unintented Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line. Which is what I currently have. I upgraded from SBC “Pro” to “Elite” DSL, which took effect today, and for some reason instead of the 2.4M down/512k up I was getting on speed tests with the Pro service, I’m now getting — at [...]

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Unobtrusive Javascript for Ruby On Rails

UJS Rails Plugin looks like very cool stuff. I’ll have to get back to this one.

Saturday, September 16th, 2006. Posted in Ruby on Rails | No Comments »>

Call your phone company

I should really call my phone company more often. Today’s call resulted in a savings of about $18/month, while doubling my DSL speed to up to 6M down/600k up. Sweet.

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Kinky for Governor

I’m wholeheartedly throwing my support behind Kinky Friedman for Texas Governor. As he would say, “Why the hell not?”
He’s making sense on education, health care and staying away from a lot of less important issues that are keeping the state government from accomplishing much of anything. Kinky’s up to 24% in recent polls.
Plus, [...]

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006. Posted in Politics | No Comments »>

Firefox cookie maintenance

Good tip from Mungo. Explains how to configure Firefox to delete all cookies everytime you quit, with certain exceptions. It’s a good idea not to leave the billions of tracking cookies that get dropped on you around — however, it’s also very inconvenient to simply delete all cookies all the time, because there [...]

Friday, September 8th, 2006. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

BBEdit 8.5

BBEdit 8.5 has been released, and includes a lot of work by my buddy Seth. I’ve been a beta tester, and they’ve definitely added some nice features that make it a much more attractive editor for Rails apps, among other things.

Thursday, September 7th, 2006. Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »>

Computer sale

I’m going to sell off some computer equipment as I refit my equipment to my new needs. If you, or anyone you know, is interested in any of the following, let me know — otherwise, it’s going on eBay soon.

PowerMac G5, 1.8 MHz, 1.5 gig RAM, 160 gig drive, Superdrive.
Dell Dimension desktop, 2.8 MHz [...]

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006. Posted in Misc, Technology | No Comments »>

Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt

DHH’s comments on Joel Spolsky’s latest are pretty dern funny.

Friday, September 1st, 2006. Posted in Ruby on Rails | No Comments »>

Last minute donations!

Help Seth reach his Pan-Mass Challenge pledge goals! And, of course, stomp out Cancer while you’re at it.

Friday, September 1st, 2006. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>