My dad drives a vintage Fraser Nash. I say drives, but that’s only half the battle, a large part of his Nash time is spent fettling it. It’s an old car; bits wear out, break or drop off. And because it’s an old car, you can’t just nip round to Halfords and pic up a replacement; nor can you head down to the breaker’s yard and cannibalize something else. So he has a lathe and a milling machine and a bewildering collection of tools. When he needs a part, he will disappear into the machine shop and, after sufficient swearing and/or bleeding, he will emerge with a newly made part. For dad, it’s all part of the fun of running a vintage car. If he weren’t able to do the work, the Nash would have had to remain a pleasant pipedream.
I’ve been eyeing the rspec and rspec on rails packages and thinking I should give them a go.
Why do people have to be human with my new computer?
Writing migrations can get pretty tedious when you’re being scrupulous about writing both the up and the down side of the migration. Okay, so the Textmate ninjas amongst you can use scarily clever snippets to populate the down migration while you write the up method, but I can’t be the only Mac user who still prefers Emacs. And not everyone gets to run on Macs either.
Typo users with longish memories will recall the absolute disaster we had when Rails 1.1 shipped and Typo wasn’t even remotely compatible with it. Even edge Typo didn’t work with 1.1. Chaos and confusion, strong words from DHH, all manner of unfun things.
I would love to be able to run a slideshow on a second screen based on a ’live’ album in Aperture. So, when I drop an image into an Aperture album on my primary screen, it shows up when appropriate in the secondary screen slideshow.
Gill needs to go to Berlin next week to do some research at the university and the Ethnological Museum, and it’s no fun flying with a CPAP machine and an insulin pen in these paranoid times.
Hmm… it’s been 3 months since I last did this. Time for another look at the incoming queries log.
You may or may not know that Typo is multiblog capable under its hood. There is a blogs table in the database and every single request ends up fetching the blog object by doing a Blog.find_by_base_url query.
I’ve been taking an accidental sabbatical from Typo. It started during conference season, then there was a bunch of housekeeping and general home type stuff that needed doing, so I’ve been away from the codeface for a while (and I still haven’t turned my EuroFOO talk into a podcast, or finished scanning and uploading all the EuroOSCON photos…)
I stand by what I said in my last post. The fight against that kind of ingrained, unconscious sexism is one that is well worth fighting.
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Whatever your opinion the the Iraq war, whatever you think of Our Glorious Grinning Leader, it is still possible to point to at least one unqualified Good Law brought in by our current government.
Whenever I listen to old fashioned media business types, I find phrases like “Shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted”, “How are we going to keep ’em down on the farm now they’ve seen Paree?” and “Pissing against the wind” running through my head.
