I created 1000 Clean Energy Jobs today!

It's a bit less than the 200,000 jobs the "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act" will create, but you gotta start somewhere ( Read more... )

I had a discussion a while back about timezones and storing DateTimes in databases. I had wanted to standardize everything to UTC, since you lose timezone data -- is it PST or PDT? How do you convert the date if it needs to be displayed to a client not in your timezone? Well, it's come 'round, and is going to bite the ruby folks.

Rails 2.1 ( Read more... )

On a dive at BreakWater in Monterey, at the end of the pipe, in about 40' of water. I'm the diver that swims past.

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This Recipe makes perfect Cashed Chicken with only a couple of changes ( Read more... )

The first beer of the evening: http://www.schlenkerla.de/indexe.html

Very very tasty.

So, today, G.W.Bush leaves office, and B.H.Obama takes office. An historic day for many reasons, including electing the first black president.

But Obama has a lot of campaign promises to keep, part of his campaign of ChangeWhat are the top three things from his campaign you want to see him do, and what was the promise during the campaign? What ( Read more... )

Deadmau5 - Ghosts 'N Stuff

"At the present moment I’m not recording, I’m not on a tour, and I’ve never had a song who’s number 1 on Beatport. I’ve never been featured on JunoDownload or Trackitdown. I’ve never released vinyl but what I do know is that I’ve been listening to electronica for many years and I’ve every right to speak my mind against ( Read more... )

I'm no fan of the smell of cigarettes, but I'm in the group that questions the harmfulness of second-hand smoke. Recent reports of the dangers of "third hand smoke" is total BS

My favorite quote:
we may next hear about the dangers of fourth-hand smoke, a term coined by John Boston of the Santa Clarita Valley Signal: someone sitting next to ( Read more... )

Humans have been modifying crops for as long as there has been agriculture. This article talks about changes to turkeys, corn, and potatoes.

Also, the fifth taste, umami.

There have been a number of recent reports of break-ins to popular Web2.0 sites. These security measures/suggestions are something I've been talking about for some time now. Twitter broke rule one. Do you?

"SEGMENTED INTERFACES. For the love of all things holy, do not, DO NOT, DO NOT, DO NOT expose management interfaces over the internet ( Read more... )