Ain’t Got No Friends
Diving into Ruby
For fun and profit I’ve been spending today learning Ruby. A day and already I’m digging around in lambda functions and introspection. Which would be impressive in other contexts and tantamount to bragging “I’ma genious!” otherwise, except that I can’t accept the credit - thus far it’s all Ruby. Twelve hours in and this […]
Ain’t That the Truth
You know a movie’s a dud when even its self-flagellating albino killer monk isn’t any fun.
John Beifuss, commercialappeal.com
How Much is Your Domain (Name) Worth?
Spurred on by Mike’s appraisal I figured to see how much postal-code.com was worth as a domain name over on LeapFish:
Combined Value Score: 171
Top Level Domain Score: 10
Unwanted Characters Score: 8
Dictionary Word Score: 50
Length Score: 8
Archive.org Score: 70
Google Search Results: 498
Yahoo Search Results: 0
MSN Search Results: 3,291
Search Engine Score: 25
Estimated Base Value: $513.00
Estimated Actual Value: […]
Macs meet Linux at Home
I finally got all the machines running as I want them in my home office:
The G3 Mac is really running a stripped-down Ubuntu
The black Sonata is a dual-boot Windows XP/Ubuntu machine. It’s been a long time since it’s booted into Windows…
The 12″ G4 PowerBook is where almost all my daily work is done
Home sweet home. […]
Govt of Canada’s Website Continues to Suck
First it was tbe Government of Canada’s ePass system that sucked, now it’s the census system. This year the government provided the option to either fill out the regular ol’ paper census or complete it online. And apparently the risk of not completing the census is a $500 fine and three months in jail so […]
Food is for Suckers
Who needs corn, really? Maize in global gene bank crisis.
In other news, the anti-bananites are winning: A future with no bananas?.
Cheese slices and twinkies for everyone!
Installing Rails on OS X
I decided today to finally take the plunge and check out Ruby on Rails in greater detail, specifically under OS X. Installation instructions vary across the web from the complete crap to the pretty good. I decided to use Installing Rails on Tiger from MacZealots and so far so good, except for a few hiccups.
In […]
Diebold in the Wrong Business
Yet again issues are being raised with the security of Diebold electronic voting machines. The company seems pathologically hell-bent on not making voting as secure as they possibly can (interestingly enough the same company makes extremely secure ATM machines - evidently a vote is not worth as much as a dollar).
The latest security flaw allows […]
Who Wants Sex?
Recently Google released Google Trends, an interesting new tool that purports to report on trends in search terms. Pretty neat, especially the bit that breaks down search terms into cities, regions and languages though the graphs themselves are really nothing more than curiosities since they contain no X or Y axis explanation
Because every new web […]