About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
I spent tonight cranking through some Ruby on Rails has_many :through association oddities and after pounding my head against the keyboard, I decided to shift gears and figure out Ruby On Rails Routes. By default, the Rails expects ID to be passed in URL strings. But that’s really lame, and passing words is much cooler …
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Just last week, I was taking with someone about Parallels Desktop. Cavalierly, I stated how I grabbed a trial key – but then realized I had no need to use for Windows. Then just days later, I needed to see what a process looked like on Windows. Funny, Murphy, real funny. Option 1. The Mac …
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PodcastNYC lists out 9 Ways to Kill Podcasting. Articulating some of the ‘this feels wrong’ parts of the iTunes, Yahoo podcast directories. On the other side, thanks to Dave Winer for comparing the river-of-news vs. portal presentations. Personally, I see time-based navigation as a good way to see how a story evolves – though, I …
Part of yesterday’s desk cleaning was taking a critical look at my Thing To Do stickie and committing to trimming it down. All the To Do List things I’ve looked at are independent of calendar – aside from some vague notion of deadline. A while back in scheduling a conversation with Dave Slusher, he said; …
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No direct progress today, mostly a ‘cleaning the desk’ day. Think found a solution to the roadblock I mentioned yesterday – not enough spare cycles to verify.
Thanks to Tyler Cowen for passing along word of Atlas Shrugged the Movie. Fun Facts from the previous link: First draft of Part 1’s (of 3 ??!!) script completed and rated 8/10 in ‘philosophical fidelity to the novel’. Angelina Jolie is interested in playing, “the greatest female character in all of literature”, Dagny Taggert. “…everybody …
Hit a fairly big roadblock today. I’m sure there’s a number of workarounds. I’m guessing this difficulty is a hint that I need to think about the mechanics of the project differently. I very well could be building it the hard way – and the roadblock is telling me that.
“They pulled me out of the auditorium and told me that they’d become aware of the fact that I had a blog, they said, ‘We don’t want you to participate.’” Wow. Big Media just keeps giving us reasons to ignore them. UPDATE: and, according to this New York Times article on the event, we are …