November 2009
18 posts
Defective Yeti: Haircut →
This pretty much exactly sums up the feelings I have when I enter a barbershop. I’m male, you’re the expert, you decide!
“Canadian history can be best summed up as ‘Quebec said no.’”
– SuperNintendoChalmer
My New Favorite Song
We’ve recently begun singing a new song at church that I absolutely adore:
Micah 7
What misery is mine?
The fruit that I desire
Does not remain.
The upright man is gone
And those that love your name
Cannot be found.
But I will wait for God
And His forgiveness will
Hear my cry.
Chorus:
Who is like God,
Who pardons sin?
Who is like God
Who won’t forget
The oath of grace...
Possibly my favorite Death Cab for Cutie song...
“Common sense would tell me it would be easier to grind up rocks into sand with...”
– Violent Acres
Things I Need (Part 1)
I’m going to start a mini-series on this blog of the things that I think I, as a programmer/system administrator need. I have not been able to find anything similar in a quick google search, so I’m crowdsourcing. Who knows, I may even add it to my list of projects.
Anyway, the thing I really need is a http server that is fast enough/secure enough/robust enough to compete with apache,...
My Rails Journey, Part 1
Just installed Rails, using the always excellent resource at Hivelogic. One thing I noticed right off the bat — gems take forever to install, especially at the point where it’s installing the documentation. Such a change from the days of easy_install in the python world :(
One Project to Rule Them All
I need to move from Facebook Events to something custom, for several reasons: I turn out to have friends that won’t use facebook, I have repeating events, I want to be able to integrate my data more easily than writing a facebook app, and I want to learn something new.
Towards that vein, I’m going to try coding this site in Rails, to see what happens. I already know that I’ll...
WatchBoy, this brings back memories! Hat tip: Peter Boothe
Fascinating →
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I’m sure that Britt would say this was a...
Huh
Just took a look at my Google Analytics dashboard for the first time in a long time, and when I look at the data from the traffic generated by my recent flurry of posts, the most interesting thing to me is that my top referrer by far is facebook. At first I thought this was probably due to the Networked Blogs app I use inserting my posts into my facebook news feed, but then I realized that, no, I...
Cold War Kids ‘We Used to Vacation’,...
Life Update
As a lot of you already know, I’ve been working for ShowClix, a startup operating out of Oakmont, PA which does online ticketing (main competitor: ticketmaster). It’s been hilariously fun, and I’m getting to do those things I actually enjoy. In fact, I look forward to going to work every day in the same way I used to look forward to attending college. I’ve updated my header...
Current Projects
(In no particular order)
A website where you can enter lead sheets in some format (it’s becoming a abc+ hybrid), storing them in a database accessible to the general public, who can browse the music and mark particular pieces as ones they know. They can also define groups (i.e. their band, etc.), and see those pieces that everyone knows, create setlists, etc. Current Roadblock: I’m...