Archive for April, 2006
Monday, April 24th, 2006
Love My Way… (who’s way???)
Um…
There is a tv show on Austar called ‘Love My Way’ which is generally considered one of the most critically aclaimed drama’s on Australian TV at the moment.
But I can’t help but think that its going into a second session slump.
For instance:
Frankie, an artist who lost her seven year old girl last season is now [...]
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Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
Telstra Bigpond Broad-banned (And VOIP!)
Well, yesterday was internet connectivity hell.
Every few minutes our connection would drop out and then attempt reconnection over and over again.
It was the hell (In a kind of western hemisphere, middle class way).
So, this morning I called Telstra Bigpond, my first call to their help desk in the THREE years I had been their customer. [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Technology by Steven
Monday, April 17th, 2006
Advice for Americans travelling overseas.
Apparently the US State Department is publishing guidelines for American’s travelling overseas to reduce the reputation of ‘loud americans’
From the guidelines:
Think as big as you like but talk and act smaller In many countries, any form of boasting is considered very rude. Talking about wealth, power or status - corporate or personal - can create [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Internet Oddities, life by Steven
Sunday, April 16th, 2006
RadRails was SadRails (for a little while)
I just upgraded to 0.6.2 of RadRails and was experiencing some weird behaviour when saving files.
Basically I was getting an exception and the file wasn’t saving. Whats worse, if you were saving on close, it would throw the error and close the file but not save.
My problem was installing over the top of an existing [...]
No Comments » - Posted in RubyOnRails by Steven
Sunday, April 16th, 2006
DYPM reaches 2.0 / Garden variety blogging….
Well, I should probably mention that Did You Pass Math?, my wordpress anti-spam plugin has reached 2.0. Thanks to all those who submitted language additions Since it contains so little functionality and you can’t really add to much more to it, I’m being fairly aggressive with my version incrementing…
Finally, I’m writing this at [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Technology by Steven
Sunday, April 16th, 2006
Finally!
Woohoo.
Finally i’ve gotten my private ruby project running in RadRails, using SubVersion (over http) on dreamhost and deploying using Capistrano(aka SwitchTower).
Thanks very much to this resource: http://nubyonrails.com/pages/shovel_dreamhost
I still have a small issue with my dispatch.fcgi being not executable after deployment, but I suspect that will be fixed with a after installation task.
I might write up [...]
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Saturday, April 15th, 2006
Pure comedy gold.
http://www.wimp.com/theinternet/
1 Comment » - Posted in Internet Oddities, life by Steven
Saturday, April 15th, 2006
Application error (Rails)
Years ago, when ASP was first taking off it wasn’t uncommon to discover errors when surfing the net.
Those first ASP apps seems to break so often, their little VB errors calling out to the wild.
Today I’ve been immersing myself back into Rails, and what have I discovered?
Rails sites seem to have the same affliction, three [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in RubyOnRails by Steven
Friday, April 14th, 2006
What happened to pedro gilberto?
I’ve been using Pedro Gilberto’s excellent PGTheme for our photo gallery
But recently i’ve just upgraded Gallery to version 2.1 and found that PGTheme is not compatible, when I visited his site Iam sad to find that it seems to have self destructed!?
Does anybody know what happened to Pedro? Will his theme be [...]
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Friday, April 14th, 2006
Bears of very little brain…
A series of cartoons from the Sydney Morning Herald about the AWB inqury:
