Monthly Archives: April 2007

See, now this is true…

Just kidding…sadly I commute long distances alone.

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Mass closing of comments for WordPress

I couldn’t seem to find in the admin section how to mass close posts for commenting. When spam gets past Akismet it’s usually for a really old post. So I looked in the database and made the change by hand … Continue reading

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And now for some napping

Heh, I am not as young as I used to be. Ran my 5K this morning (36:06 – I would have done a bit better than this, but there were about 1000 people and it took me 1.5 minutes to … Continue reading

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DNA means we are friends

This is something I have long thought about. The idea that “Family” matters. The prevailing notion is that because you share DNA with others on the planet you are somehow bound to them and must be friends. I have never … Continue reading

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Fear of flying

I have a pretty irrational fear of flying. It kind of sucks because it curses me to never go very far. I had been thinking over the last few weeks how nice it would be if I could overcome that. … Continue reading

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Running to beat the devil

Today for some unknown reason, while beginning my run I decided to go for some speed. Shorter run, faster pace. Heh, well that was interesting. Beside sucking most of the fun out of it I am now quite tired :) … Continue reading

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I really don’t understand businesses

I just read this via reddit. I can only think that large businesses do not understand that they shoot themselves in the foot with such bs. Now, I know what you are saying, pedantic constant reader, “Well it’s diluting the … Continue reading

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JRuby

One of the cooler things that was presented today at GoRuCo2007 was a talk by Nick Sieger on JRuby. JRuby is a somewhat complete implementation of Ruby in Java. Like most talks I have seen given, it wasn’t so much … Continue reading

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Zed Shaw’s talk

http://savingtheinternetwithhate.com/

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Talk on Camping, at GoRuCo2007

This is the talk we heard.

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