Seagate has announced a 7200rpm 500gb 2.5″ notebook hard drive. Assuming they didn’t break the form factor (as some other 500gb notebook drives have done, using 3 platters but making a drive that’s slightly taller than the form factor allows), this will be a nice update for the 160gb drive in my MacBook Pro. There […]
My web host, Dreamhost, recently upgraded Rails to 2.1.1. This broke my Recipes site. It’s fixed now, but unfortunately it was down for a few days since I didn’t notice right away. The way I got it working again was surprisingly easy: I created a new Rails application from scratch (“rails recipes”), I copied my […]
“Most Asian markets recover on hopes for US bailout” == “Most Asian Markets Recover”. “Banks lead Europe stocks higher on US bailout hopes” == “Banks lead Europe stocks higher” See? The first part is a fact, the second part is a guess. The title of this post is some Ruby code that will fix up […]
My wife bought a new teapot. On the bottom, it says it’s freezer and microwave safe. It does sound convenient to take your pot of frozen tea from the freezer and heat it up in the microwave, but I wonder what those snobby tea drinkers would think of that.
I picked up some Shure SE310 in-ear headphones when I was in San Francisco back at the start of the year, and never blogged about them. Better late than never, here are some thoughts. The good: They sound incredible. It’s stunning how clear music sounds, and how much bass they kick out. They block out […]
It’s never too early for Fruit Cake! (There’s a surprising variety and quantity of Fruit Cake at my local grocery store today).
I have a theory on the economic bailout plan that’s being proposed in the states. Disclaimer: I know as much about economics as I do about fixing cars, and I’m all proud that just last week I changed the headlight bulb by myself. Here’s a quote from Dave Winer with some back story: Now we […]
And you should be a PC too, because lots of other people are. I think that’s what they’re saying… But if everyone else jumped off a bridge, I thought I wasn’t supposed to jump off a bridge too. I think my Mom told me that.
For all the work that people do to try to prevent spam from showing up on websites, there’s a class of sites that spammers are using to propagate spam basically unchecked. Abandoned Websites. Here’s how it typically goes: Bob gets an idea for a site. In a burst of optimism, Bob registers a domain name, […]
I like the fact that Google Chrome runs each tab in a separate process. What happens when one of those processes dies? Fire up Task Manager, pick a chrome.exe and try it out: