TiVo grabbed the premiere of 30 Rock for us. Comparing it against Studio 60 is like comparing the past 15 years of Saturday Night Live against anything funny. Tin Fey’s work on Weekend Update was a small glimmer of hope in Lorne Michael’s otherwise deserted, stale series. Like the paper the next morning, the only …
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Lowering the Barriers of Connecting Podcasters and their Listeners
I wrote this article earlier this year, and with the original site transformed into something completely different, I thought I’d put it here for us to enjoy for years to come. Podcasting has the same problem as television, radio, and that legendary tree falling in the forest. There’s no accurate way to measure the number …
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Thinking of the 35th Time Before the 1st
FeedSeeder was deployed on its first publicly visible server this morning. While it took much longer than I expected (better part of my non-client time for a week) much of that time was setting up the infrastructure; prepping the box, loading the project into Subversion, setting up the deployment recipes, etc. While it’s not rock …
Tip on Replacing Apple’s Personal Web Sharing with Apache 2
Remember to re-open the firewall on Port 80 after disabling Apple’s Personal Web Sharing. Apple toggles it automatically with PWS. I needed to create a custom entry in the firewall listings for Apache2 to be accessible from another machine on the network. Big thanks to McClain Looney for the reminder.
SSHKeychain.socket Error on Rake Remote:Setup
Still working through deploying a Rails app (if you’ve been following along, I got Subversion plugged in yesterday). Today was setting up the deployment by running: rake remote:setup The process kept erroring out saying: No File or Directory – /tmp/501/SSHKeychain.socket Turns out I had a bunch of cruft in ~/.MacOSX/properties.plist. After cutting out the offending …
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Suburban Living Not Cheaper Than Urban Living
File under Things You Already Knew: “The costs of longer commutes are so high that they can outweigh the cheaper mortgage payments [of suburban living].” – Washington Post (Thanks to GroovyGreen.com for the pointer)
More and Less, More or Less
Overheard in a meeting today: “You’re going to be less recipient and more participant.” Seems like a pretty good description of how this media landscape is changing.
How To Set Up Subversion, svnX, for TextDrive on OS X
I’m walking through the latest beta version of Agile Web Development with Rails 2nd Edition, specifically the new bits on deploying Rails apps. Capistrano – the preferred and recommended deployment utility. Thing is – Capistrano hinges on Subversion. Not something covered in AWDwR or appropriate to be covered. There’s plenty of other books on the …
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I’m Still In Here
The office I’m spending the day in has motion detectors on the lights. I sat too perfectly still for too long and the room went black. Hey. I’m still in here.
MN Governor e-Debate 2006 First Impressions
Steven Clift is moderating the 2006 MN Gubernatorial candidate e-dbate. I’ve been following along via the RSS feed. Ever day a new question – perfect. This is exactly how I like my politics – integrated into how I do everything already (RSS). The questions are good, the answers are surprisingly good considering it’s a ‘political …
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