Well its a done deal! We got the keys and its time to paint. After that the big move.
The feeling of owning your own home has already come over me. Its awesome.

"- There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or web search results pages. There will not be crazy, flashy, graphical doodads flying and popping up all over the Google site. Ever."
Hopefully this won’t change.

A student at UMass Dartmouth had an unexpected visit after he requested a book that was on the fed’s watch list. The book? Mao Tse-Tung’s “The Little Red Book.”
“The professors said the student was told by the agents that the book is on a “watch list,” and that his background, which included significant time abroad, […]

Ok, here’s my Top 5 albums of this year. I based this solely on immediate attraction and what I listened to over and over and over again. These would have to be my favorite albums of 2005

Matisyahu - Live At Stubb’s
Fischerspooner - Odyssey
Sinead O’Connor - Throw Down Your Arms
Thievery Corporation - The Cosmic Game
INXS - […]

After seeing how much Howard Stern stuff was online, I whipped up a RSS feed specifically for the on demand content.
Howard Stern On Demand RSS Feed

Well, I must have been working too hard today (on a rails app), because I totally missed this until the evening. Ruby on Rails has officially gone 1.0.
Thanks and congrats go out to all the commiters out there for their hard work, and everyone that submitted bugs while I spent that time learning the libraries […]

I finally broke down and bought a new computer. I’m the proud new owner of a 20″ iMac G5 and I’m loving it. It’s been a while, but it was worth the wait.

Here’s a great post from the point of view of developer’s girlfriend.
4. Profanity is his friend.
You have to learn to put on your earmuffs when it comes to watching him work. I know. You want to be supportive and sit in his office offering kind words of encouragement. Go right ahead! Just be prepared for […]

This year I learned…

How to hack a Tivo
How to broadcatch Tv shows using RSS feeds
That while the iPod Shuffle is cool and small, it’s no iPod
That I hate Biology
That WordPress kicks MovableType’s butt
AJAX
What an NZB file is
How to make plugins for Xbmc using Python
Python
That BlackBerrys are addictive
LISP
How to make a Dashboard Widget
BNF
That your wedding day […]

So what’s on O’Reilly’s radar at the moment? Apparently Ruby is the current star. Obviously due to Rails, Ruby book sales are up 1552% vs the same period last year. I think the great thing about Rails is that it is showing everyone, myself included, how intuitive and sophisticated Ruby actually is.
By conventions, Rails […]