2008

Jul

Breakfast/playtime at McDonalds. Been up since 5:20 with Trent

Watching all of our neighbors pyrotechnics. Just sparklers for us right now.

At Wall-e, my first movie with Trent. His first movie was Kung Fu Panda with Julie

Pouring rain at the Spring Hill Independence Day Parade, buy still fun

TextMate Blog » Working With History in Bash

Instantly Get Important RSS Alerts with IM...

Easy Vertical Centering with CSS

CodeClimber: using Ruby for IMAP with Gmail

Listening to Emmylou

Lack of updates today due to sysadmin duties

Installing ImageMagick / RMagick on Ubuntu...

e - Extract Any Archive by Martin Ankerl

git push origin master

Trent: “I love my mommy, but my mommy got hurt. That’s sad.” regarding Julie...

Jun

Final visit to Saxby’s. They gave me a present! Godspeed, friends.

Thanks for all of your prayers.

The results show that my dad had an actual stroke, not a mini-stroke, but he doesn’t seem to...

Confirming stereotypes, Rep. Marsha Blackburn just kissed Baby Ryan

Bulk insertion of data with ActiveRecord

BenCurtis.com » RESTful searching in Rails

So distraut. Just found out that my favorite coffee shop Saxby’s is closing on Monday, and...

Success! I didn’t realize you had to add git powered plugins as submodules and also add...

How to get Cross Browser Compatibility Every...

Okay deployment troubles, I’m going to say goodbye to you for a bit and hello to the weekend.

Time for strftime

Helping someone configure Dreamweaver, but I haven’t used that in years and don’t even...

Praying for my dad who is in the hospital

I have some of the best clients!

BrickArms Weapons

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) on Vimeo

DC v Heller - 2nd Amendment is Individual...

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed - yay for freedom being...

The Bush Paradox - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

“Life is complicated. The reason we have democracy is that no...”
— The Bush Paradox - Op-Ed -...

Extinguished a fire for the first time ever. Cleanup is not fun.

Bittersweet is the word that comes to mind right now

Don't Forget To Reserve Subdomains For...

Bank/Haircut(yay!)/Food

PrefPane for Passenger

Rumor has it that the SCOTUS 2nd Amendment ruling will arrive tomorrow and be in the favor of those...

SubdomainFu: A New Way To Tame The Subdomain

Old School Cafe, oh yeah

Yay for someone being helpful on #github. I had accidentally replaced my key with the server key...

Export Your Google Calendars

Derek Abbott's Animal Noise Page

Pagination Gallery: Examples And Good...

Fonts available for @font-face embedding -...

Too much sysadmin work and not enough food… must rectify.

slicehost/install-git-from-source

Feed The Animals by Girl Talk is absolutely insane. The mashup of all mashups incorporating 15-20...

The Rails Documentation App - Rails-doc.org

Splunk Your Distributed Logs in EC2 -...

Google I/O Sessions (Google I/O Session...

What is good tequila?

Superslim Me: Man Sheds Lbs With McD's

Gotchas When Upgrading to Rails 2.1

Twitter / MarsPhoenix: Are you ready to...

Attention to details makes the Pragmatic Programmers’ store http://www.pragprog.com/ a...

Please let me skip your entry level support personnel. I need someone who isn’t reading a...

wtop - "top" for Apache

bkkeepr | Track your reading and bookmark on...

A Concise Guide to Using Thinking Sphinx

Working from home as Ryan naps and Trent gets his first swim lesson

It sure is nice to be able to move my work from the office to home as needed. Macbook Pro FTW!

Halcyon — Home

Dr Nic » What is *jour and why they are...

Enjoying free icecream at Chick-Fil-A

Watching Avi Bryant’s MagLev presentation from RailsConf

Direct link to Firefox 3 for Mac OS X, came up instantly for me: http://tinyurl.com/5x3vmf

Coldplay X&Y for only $1.99 today if you don’t already have it: http://tinyurl.com/4xkuac

Ruby on Rails 2.1 What’s New - Second...

Bashfully Yours, Gem Shortcuts

Rails 2.1: now with better integrated caching...

The thunderstorm keeps knocking the power out.

via A Remarkable Photo From Tornado Country

Fluid Apps: Here are the Fluid Apps I have created. Each one...

110 javascripts used in the hello_world example for sproutcore

Everyone assumed Ruby in Leopard was for Rails, but it sure seems that this is an even bigger...

12 gems being installed for sproutcore. This is all ruby stuff my friends!!!!

Watching 18 dock icons bounce as I launch a bunch of Fluid apps to update.

So the album I’ve been enjoying since last week is the new Coldplay album, Viva La Vida. It is...

3 Ways to Lower Gas Prices (via AmericanSolutions)

Just noticed a new modal box for marking all items as read in Google Reader

A War Worth Fighting | Print Article |...

Pre-Bid Discussions

Google App Engine from a PHP developer's...

The Paragraph in Web Typography & Design —...

Hosting Git repositories, The Easy (and...

Fluid CSS TextMate Bundle

Happy Fathers Day. Mine has been great so far. Happy to be a dad :-)

A Guide to CSS Support in Email

dm me if you need an evernote invite

Pruning files and such due to a ridiculous inode limit from a shared hosting provider. Planning to...

The Eagles - Their Greatest Hits for $2.99 at Amazon just today: http://tinyurl.com/4z4mfl

Highly amused at the graphic that Daniel created for me to be able to identify different...

Cracking the Code - The New York Times > Home...

Happy I have a UPS while we have a thunderstorm.

Hunting down bugs with Daniel

via I Can Has Cheezburger

Digging through a huge collection of amazing photos… my friend is truly gifted.

Going to pick up a craiglist purchase

I’m talking to a TN Titan who doesn’t know that I know he is a Titan, even though I...

Moving Past BlueCloth

#57 (Compile with ragel-6.2 broken) on...

Dual Identity

My friend Darren Welch and his business partner Brian Vogel have just launched a new Nashville based...

BMW GINA Light Visionary Model: Premiere (via BMWwebTV)

I hate insurance with the fire of a thousand suns

Picking up The Torrent

Very happy for @zufferguffin and @Kaci that they are having a boy!

Changing brake lights

Trying to catch up on my F1 viewing

Has anyone else noticed that the 3g iPhone says it has a speaker instead of speakers?

Stopped by the SH police because a light is apparently out. I was like, what’s up? Because I...

Grabbing lunch in preparation for the keynote

http://toucharcade.com/ - new blog for games on the iphone

Maternal instincts include the 2nd amendment: http://tinyurl.com/6qj9nh

I can neither confirm nor deny that I am listening to a certain CD.

jQuery UI - ThemeRoller

Whole Foods yellow cupcake not as good as Costco’s

Dealing with a toddler temper tantrum

Obama’s gaffes: 1) http://tinyurl.com/5f49zh 2) http://tinyurl.com/6adwng via...

Presenting Overloadr: The Great Rails Host...

Met a fellow Rails programmer at Chick-Fil-A due to my Engine Yard shirt

Men’s gathering at my church

Making a screencast to show a client how to use their admin

RMagick installer

Bulk updating Gem source index… and waiting, waiting, waiting

American Boys Bill of Rights via lileks.com

10 Examples of Beautiful CSS Typography and...

Design isn’t about tools : Journal : Mark...

JeffCroft.com: Why we don’t skip Photoshop

Why we skip Photoshop - (37signals)

xml.builder for flash consumption

Spacewalk live at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv very awesome

Ajax Whois 2.0 - fast domain name search and...

Instant Domain Search

Jeremy and Trent Racing

Trent’s name in sand

Mimicing Fisherman

Watching DHH’s Railsconf keynote

Transmit_completed

Slicehost: Click on All Sizes and download the large to get...

Phototype: image manipulation with...

5 salts from around the world

Transmit Uploading indicator: I just love how I can hide...

Version Control for Designers

FiveRuns TuneUp

Hearing and answering Why?… Why?… Why?… Why?… Why?… Why?…...

Cleaning up a shattered bowl full of Fruity Pebbles. Trent’s first time trying them, and I...

acts_as_revisable

RubyForge: Rubber

Jester - Javascript REST client

Pool Party - Cloud EC2 Computing Made Easy

SOLAS reflective marine tape

SensibleUnits.com

10.5.3 finally fixed the Firewire audio device crash. No longer have to start up with it connected!

Just watched the Lost finale. Excellent.

La Hacienda is always a great place to run into friends

Just saw a baby groundhog. So cute!

Happy 212th Birthday Tennessee!

Back at home and unpacked. Now off to the Worship/Sound dinner.