I finally bought these Lacoste shoes. I really wanted to buy them after I first tried them on a few months ago, but there was no way I was paying more than $100 for them. Around $80 is ok with me though.

Everyone has been frothing at the mouth about Ruby on Rails this week. The primary cause was most likely the two days Rails class that someone was putting on. We often put on classes here that are taught by people internal to our company. Anyone can attend, provided they can convince their boss to pay for it and give them the time to do it. Rather ( Read more... )

I can't sleep and that sucks. I believe the cause is leaving work early to take a nap due to my illness. What was going to end up being a nap turned into sleeping most of the afternoon. I woke up and worked for a while at home, and as the evening wore on I climbed in bed and expected to fall asleep, but unfortunately my brain has been very active ( Read more... )

The longest day of the year AND it's nice outside. Everyone should take the day off and kick it outside (since I can't).

For the past few months I haven't used Eclipse as my IDE. I had previously been trying to switch to Eclipse from IntelliJ's IDEA. IDEA has a huge licensing fee you have to pay every time you want to buy the next version, and you can only run the copy in one place, so I figured I'd rather use Eclipse since it's free and I could use it on any ( Read more... )

Peace officer poised
Cars yield to his radar gun
I curse 10 miles back

I reinstalled my computer yesterday. This time I decided to try Gnome instead of KDE. I have to say, I actually think Gnome looks, and reacts a lot better than KDE. I don't think I'll go back to KDE any time soon. It only took me a day to get it going this time. The first time I installed Gentoo it tooks me longer than a week. If I hadn't had to do ( Read more... )

This song is amazing.

http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2006/04/14/thing-a-week-29-code-monkey/
http://data.coolnicks.co.uk/Code%20Monkey.mp3 (Backup link to mp3 in case of

Brew yourself a cup
Dance to the caffeine jingle
Work will set you free

or

Work yourself to death

I don't know which is better

Click double click click
Satisfied with your friends list
Life passes you by