January 2010
every New Years I resolve to make more music. Will I this time?
Bluegrass Gospel Project http://yfrog.com/33jx3zj
Bluegrass Gospel Project http://yfrog.com/4aewdqj
Jazz trio at church, First Night Burlington http://yfrog.com/4iwljwj
#10yearsago I was in a little house in the woods and let friends shave my head at midnight
December 2009
Watch…skip 0:45 of Ed’s blustering and listen to what all Dems should be saying right now.
2:15: “People like Jim DeMint and Dick Cheney need to go away so we can solve the problems they’ve created.”
(via Rep. Massa fires back at Cheney, GOP political attacks - Daily Kos TV (beta))
“The rallying cry now from Republicans is that we shouldn’t try the Christmas...”
– Rachel Maddow rips apart Cheney, GOP attack machine - Daily Kos TV (beta)
bundling up in fleece for another walk in the snowy woods with the old dog
It’s already Blue Moon New Year in the Philippines: http://www.flickr.com/photos/k0re/4230860423/
“The plane was late taking off due to the new pat-down and bag-examine rules. I...”
– Neil Gaiman’s Journal: How I got to Boston
“For some years after 9/11, passengers were forbidden to get up and use the...”
– The truth about airplane security measures. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
“The ultra-brief/ultra-intense light Guo uses is produced by a femtosecond laser,...”
– Researchers Create Gold Aluminum, Black Platinum, Blue Silver : University of Rochester News
We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion http://bit.ly/7d5GR6
Checking my RSS feed on a beautiful clear sunny Xmas morning, puppy napping beside me
“If you can’t find licensing information, contact the seller and ask for details....”
– Nice Web Type – Where to get web fonts
“The romantic image of an über-programmer is someone who fires up Emacs, types...”
– Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity — The Endeavour
“One day the engineering team was clustered in the snack room looking at the soda...”
– The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free « Steve Blank
RT @jasongullickson: “…if you listen to customers, what they tell you they want will be based on something they already know” http://i …
annotate 2.4.0 released →
Remember the annotate_models rake task? Dave Thomas wrote it many years ago and it corrects one of the flaws in ActiveRecord: it describes the schema for a table as a comment inside the Ruby model…
opacity (or, a paucity of transparency) →
The rules for how to make parts of your HTML page translucent are kind of hard to understand — in other words, the opacity rules are pretty opaque. (Anyone who can make that into a good pun, let me…
RT @abrons: Wow, snow up in the Oakland hills. http://yfrog.com/3gu45j
At work (yes, on Sunday) but just remembered #poliscifi so it’ll be the most awesome work weekend ever
So many open source projects, so few fingers! (erector, rerun, treasury, and gorilla all got some love today)
Yay for deprecation warnings; boo for making it look the error was in your code, not mine.
DEPRECATION WARNING: require “activerecord” is deprecated… (called from activerecord-2.3.5/lib/activerecord.rb:2) Way to go, Rails core!
“The fact that these cameras could be abused by an oppressive government in the...”
– Big Bother - Jamie Malanowski
“Consider: in this day of powerful servers that connect computers around the...”
– Big Bother - Jamie Malanowski
“Modules are a big deal. CommonJS modules represent the first time a JavaScript...”
– CommonJS effort sets JavaScript on path for world domination