Category Archive for: ‘Notes’

• Maple Hard, Finger Soft

  I was working on a shaker oval box this weekend when the work slipped, and the knife I was using to define the swallowtails turned, cutting a 3/4″ gash on my left index finger. I’m very fortunate: one of the guys drove me to the …

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• A Few Moving Tips

  1) Colored packing tape to color-code various rooms. Way easier to see than reading some scribble that may not be legible. Obviously, this may be less useful if you have color blindness. 2) If you have a lot of books, actually buy some boxes of …

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• Moving Sucks

  Not that this will surprise anyone, but moving sucks. The one good thing about moving is the re-evaluation of what one has vs. what one really wants. The one bad thing about moving is the time and energy for the re-evaluation of what one has …

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• IE7, Beta 2

  In the Good Morning Silicon Valley article about the IE7 beta, Matt Rosoff is quoted as saying, “I think IE 7 brings the browser to parity with Firefox in terms of features, and the security’s a big improvement over IE 6.” Probably the latter is …

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• SDForum’s Ruby Conference

  If you’re going to have a technical conference that’s one or two full days, I have two key concepts for you: 1) Power available to everyone. 2) A place for everyone to put their laptop that makes notetaking convenient. There were these devices invented many …

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• Now the h2 of Deirdres

  When search engines first came about, I was typically the top ranked Deirdre. However, other Deirdres have become active on the net, so as recently as a few months ago, I was the #4-ranked Deirdre. I’m currently the #2 rank on Google for Deirdre. Even …

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• Nasty Little Bugses

  So, it happened that I was doing a rails project where I needed joins in paginate and I wound up discovering something unexpected: foo.id came through as the id for one of the join tables. The way around that is to find_by_sql instead, and to …

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• Rails, moving stuff from one db to another

  Sometimes, you want ActiveRecord to do all the heavy lifting of data conversion. Plus, then you can use all the stuff you want during the conversion. #!/usr/local/bin/ruby Copies stuff from old mysql db to new postgres db, including changing of icky old int fields to …

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• Ahh, April Fool’s

  Possibly the best April Fool’s day gadget I’ve seen in years can be found here. You don’t even have to be a tool geek to think it’s funny, but if the humo(u)r strikes you as overly dry, just skip to the disclaimers.

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• A Multi-Prong Approach

  Lately, I’ve been taking a yoga class twice a week (though I may take it a third day so I don’t stiffen up quite so much over the weekend). I first took yoga as a teenager, back when hatha yoga was hatha yoga, and the …

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