I bought a couple of Ruby on Rails books hoping to learn my way around the development platform but have been pretty confused with getting the environment set up. I get by so much on pages like this when I'm troubleshooting I figured I'd put this up to help anyone ...

My web server logs all search engine queries that lead to this web site. Most of these must have matched my old journal entries which are temporarily offline. Here are the highlights from the last six months: sign that my boss is flirting with me journal on shopping bags attributes darned socks freelance profile ...

Superpowerless - Dump Critics complain about the inconsistencies in recording techniques on this album, but what never falters is the intimacy and patience with which the songs are wrought. I was amazed to find out that as many as six songs on the disc are covers, they are so well chosen ...

One big image versus many small images Cutting a design up into eight 2K images will help a page load faster than leaving it as one 20K image, (16K < 20K) right? Not really. Each HTTP request generates about 1K of server-client traffic overhead, so eight 2K images with HTTP headers ...