Yesterday, I got Amazon’s shipment of Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide, and I stepped through the installation of Ruby and Rails and did the first “Hello, world!”-type tutorial. Rails looks really amazing (there’s even a tutorial online that shows a simple blog engine being built in 15 minutes, and with only 58…
In the course of the recent Comcast debacle, I kept my eyes peeled, and gleaned a bit of info about the diagnostic menus on the Motorola DCT3412 I (“Dual Tuner DVR / HDTV Capable”). To get into the main diagnostic status menu, grab the remote, and make sure the box is plugged in, but “off”…
My parents got FiOS internet at their home in Florida a few months ago, and it seemed to be pretty stable and blazingly fast — better than my expensive DSL! My parents! How dare they surpass me in the quest for newer/faster/better digital gadgets! I was appalled! Anyway, after the shock wore off, I figured…
When we last left our heroes, Comcast’s contractor had botched the install, and promised to send someone out Wednesday to fix things. Wednesday came and went, with a call at the very end of the installation window informing us that the contractor had been involved in an accident, and gone to the hospital. Thankfully, he…
I’ve been looking at the new Series 3 TiVo this morning, and drooling over it. However much I vastly prefer the TiVo interface, though, I’m not sure I’m prepared to shell out an extra $800 plus $13/mo on top of my Comcast service for the privilege. At $8/mo for the box and service, I think…
Wow– looking at the right-hand menu, I really need to find a way to collapse the archive list into a pop-up menu or something. It’s so long, you can’t see anything else now. 😛 Any WordPress plug-ins for that?
As one of the fifty kajillion projects I’m constantly working on, I’ve been slowly correcting the titles of my iTunes library. Sure, when I ripped my CDs, iTunes looks them up in the CDDB/Gracenote database, but they’re not often formatted the way I like them (and neither are the ones I’ve downloaded through various other…