September 2010
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Updating to Ruby 1.9.2 on Snow Leopard
Rail 3 was released a few days ago. According to the getting started guide, to develop for Rails 3, I needed to install Ruby 1.9.x onto Snow Leopard, which ships with Ruby 1.8.7. Here are the steps that I cobbled together from google searches to replace the 1.8.7 version:
curl http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.2-p0.tar.bz2 -o ruby-1.9.2-p0.tar.bz2
tar -xvzf ruby-1.9.2-p0.tar.bz2
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August 2010
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21 Jump Street
I missed 21 Jump Street the first time around so I though I would check out the series. It is not the deepest TV you will find, but is surprisingly good for a 1987 show, which is mostly due to Johnny Depp not being a superstar yet, so he would deign to be in a TV show.
Love this scene when Johnny’s character, Officer Tom Hanson, defends himself against allegations of being a liberal.
I...
July 2010
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Jeffrey Zeldman on Japanese Web Design →
“With respect to clarity, simplicity, and boldness of line, the Japanese have been a thousand years ahead of us in fine art and graphic design. Our best painters learned minimalism, cartooning, and much else from the Japanese during the “Orientalism” period of the late 19th century. Before that, western fine art was judged in part on its complexity and detail. And our posters and...
Dimensional drawings of Apple's mobile products →
mrgan:
Apple has a new page with dimensional drawings of iPods, iPhones, and iPads. It’s a resource for businesses looking to build cases for these devices, but it’ll also come in handy to those who are modeling said products for marketing materials and such. I love Apple’s single-serving pages of this sort.
(va Jacob Bijani)
For people who are making cases for Apple products, this kind of...
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The Spirit of New Orleans: The Genius of Dave... →
My little contribution to the Treme music documentation:
When Davis broke into Tower Records to recover his consigned cd’s, he stole a few extras, the most interesting of which was The Spirit of New Orleans: The Genius of Dave Bartholomew, which is unfortunately out of print according to the dialog.
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June 2010
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Getting Out While the Going Is Good →
John Gruber says
But whether Gates would have done a better job than Ballmer is a different question than whether Ballmer has done a good job. Apple’s growth this past decade can largely be accounted for with two words: iPod and iPhone. Microsoft wanted in on both those markets, and got smoked. That’s on Ballmer.
I think what it really comes down to is that Microsoft is and was ungovernable....
April 2010
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“The six then turned on the coach, reportedly beating him with wooden traffic...”
– Another one for the Truth is Stranger Than Fiction files:
Slovenian players cut for beating coach
Television Revew: 'Treme' -- A Beautiful Snapshot... →
“The first thing you see at the beginning of HBO’s new series Treme are the superimposed words that define the setting for David Simon and Eric Overmyer’s New Orleans drama: “Three months after.” It doesn’t say after what, and it doesn’t have to.”
Can’t wait.
March 2010
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“In technical terms, 5.5 million is a really big number.”
– Quotes like these are why I like to save Macalope articles for a rainy day: http://www.macworld.com/article/146750/2010/02/macalope_jerk.html
February 2010
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Vancouver Now - It's not political, but more... →
This is something I’ve noticed for a long time but could not put my finger on it: the preponderance of Canadian hockey players shoot left-handed, while in the US the opposite is true and majority of players shoot right-handed.
What this article does not say, but which I think is true and important is that this comes down to much of the competitive differences between the two countries in...
“Teabaggers
Charges: America’s dumbest and most racist citizens finally found a...”
– The Beast’s 50 most loathsome Americans is back for 2009. (via jimray)
January 2010
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You know we're fücked when... →
… Paul Krugman says:
“And it’s a betrayal of everything Obama’s supporters thought they were working for. Just like that, Obama has embraced and validated the Republican world-view — and more specifically, he has embraced the policy ideas of the man he defeated in 2008. A correspondent writes, “I feel like an idiot for supporting this guy.”
I wish President Obama would swing for the...
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Canucks, HNIC to meet over criticisms →
I think Ron MacLean overstepped his bounds on this one. It is only natural for someone to make a mistake publicly once in a while and I hope that he will own up to it so we can all move on. Ron has made many great contributions to hockey and they far outweigh his mistake(s).
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Auger vs. Burrows →
Tom captures the essence of this issue here in the comments:
“Burrows has a propensity to dive? As an impartial adjudicator, I’m going to make sure I see a trip before I call one when Burrows goes down. If he was tripped it is a penalty. If I’m not sure it was a trip it was not. If it was a trip and I think Burrows went down to make sure it was called, he gets a penalty too. Those are the...
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WatchMike Grier on his first game back in San Jose.
Welcome back Griersie!
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Moving .PST files into Gmail: you can try this at... →
James Fallows outlines the best solution I’ve seen for uploading your Outlook .PST files to Gmail.