January 2009
15 posts
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The Bacon Explosion - Take Bacon. Add Sausage.... →
Mmmmm - must eat bacon.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-25) →
R.E.M. (16)
Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire (15)
Leonard Cohen (13)
Beck (13)
Diana Krall (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-18) →
R.E.M. (17)
Jack Johnson (9)
Regina Spektor (7)
U2 (6)
Wilco (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Installing #haml in your heroku app
I’ve been playing around with Heroku lately. It’s a very nice dev and deployment environment for Rails apps. If you need to get a basic Rails app developed and deployed quickly, this is a nice turnkey solution.
But, it does have its quirks. One of which is #haml, the gem for which doesn’t seem to exist in the heroku system. Fortunately, Heroku is running Rails 2.2.2 which...
“Own your Zip code. The next frontier is local.”
– Seth’s Blog: Time to start a newspaper
Though I don’t really want to start a newspaper, I understand Seth’s sentiment here. For 20 years we have been focused on the growth of big commerce. Bring in a Wal-Mart! Hey a McDonald’s opened up down the street! Several months...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-11) →
R.E.M. (36)
U2 (24)
Neil Young (22)
Ray Charles (20)
Thomas Newman (19)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“waste produced by coal plants is actually more radioactive than that generated...”
– Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste: Scientific American
Ponder this, and then head on over to look at the NY TImes coverage of the major spill just north of Asheville in Kingston, TN.
What’s that you say? You haven’t heard anything about it? Well it did happen at...
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Dirty Tricks From Our Friends at Charter?
As many of you may know, I am in the process of starting up a small business. There’s a lot involved. The most important service to me is internet connectivity, so I’m doing some price comparisons.
Asheville, unfortunately, only has a couple of choices in my price range that I am aware of:
Charter Small Business cable internet service
Bell South DSL internet service
Although I...
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“It’s time for congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America.”
– Larry Flynt
CNN Political Ticker: Porn industry seeks federal bailout
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WatchWingsuit basejumping. Oh my, this is sick.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-4) →
Jack Johnson (9)
Regina Spektor (7)
Sara Bareilles (6)
Beck (6)
Death Cab for Cutie (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Automate Your Screen Grabs
I find that I’m often taking screenshots and posting them online. I’ll need to collaborate with a client about a user interface choice, or I’ll see something funny that I want to post in my blog. Mac OS X provides some nice screen capture keyboard short cuts. But capturing the image is the easy part.
Once I’ve got the image file, I have to decide what server to put it...
