January 2010
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Blast from the past
I had a strong feeling of something-is-not-okay during a meeting today.
One of our vendors opened his notebook, connected it to a projector, and started showing us something on the wall.
In the beginning I couldn’t quite pinpoint it. Slides, diagrams, images, text. Normal things. What the heck is not normal? Then I realized! He was running Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6!
It felt so...
December 2009
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Yahoo, why art thou so lame?
Logged in to Yahoo after quite a long time.
Now it’s asking me to set two secret questions and answers. And look what they recommend for the answers: “Make sure your answer is private, memorable and does not change over time” — How smart! That’s the fastest way for someone to guess your password: if it’s memorable and doesn’t change over time! :-)
And...
November 2009
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June 2008
2 posts
“The longer someone works in isolation, the greater the likelihood that what they...”
– Jesse James Garrett
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Ping.fm →
Just subscribed to Ping.fm — pretty cool service!
It’s still in private beta, but you can use “landofping” as the beta code.
May 2008
17 posts
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Twitter is down!
alex: I want to tweet "Twitter is down!" and I cannot :)
kirk: sucks
alex: I need a Jaiku account ;)
kirk: yeah, i wish i signed up for one before Google bought them, but I was loyal to Twitter... ;)
JavaScript: The Good Parts →
It looks like there are many good books coming out this May. And this can only make me happy :)
Douglas Crockford, of JavaScript: The World’s Most Misunderstood Programming Language fame, proves that he can write not only good essays, but also good books. His (first?) book called JavaScript: The Good Parts focuses on what’s good inside JavaScript: OOP, functional programming, loose...
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Deploying Rails Applications →
Another good Rails book from The Pragmatic Programmers!
Deploying Rails Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide covers deploying Rails applications under shared hosting, virtual machine, and dedicated server hosting environments, and looks at the variety of technologies you can use, such as Apache, Nginx and Mongrel.
Monitoring, source control, and automated deployment using Capistrano are also...
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Look who's tweeting next
After I was bitching about the silly location-based language settings employed by Google’s Blogger, it’s now Twitter’s time to be stupid … while trying to be smart.
Although my Twitter language is set to English, they are trying to be (too) friendly and since they’ve launched Twitter Japan they are sending me emails in Japanese!
I suppose it’s based on my...
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Advanced Rails Recipes →
Good news from The Pragmatic Programmers!
Advanced Rails Recipes: 84 New Ways to Build Stunning Rails Apps is now in print and shipping. Advanced Rails Recipes keeps you on the cutting edge of Rails 2.0 development and continues to turn the fast-paced Rails framework to your advantage. This book is filled with pragmatic recipes you’ll use on every Rails project.
“If chocolate is a gift from God, does eating it help one cleanse his sins?”
– a believer
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“Feeling the need for French blend. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in...”
– firebass, via Twitter
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“I don’t know why, but today all the women wearing blue are beautiful.”
– Wookie, while walking through Shibuya
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xeal.ro not found - again!
I can’t believe it! I’m getting a 404 Server Not Found when I’m accessing xeal.ro. It happened last week and now again!
I really have to move my other blog from Blogger to a better place. Like DreamHost.
And I have to start using a good blogging engine. Ideally written in Rails. Like Typo.
Yes, I definitely have to do it. I just need a day to be 28 hours instead of 24…...
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Blogger outsmarting itself
I wonder why Blogger (and other sites too) tries to be too smart and shows me the Blogger toolbar in Japanese?! When the blog I’m reading is in English! I just checked and it does it for any blog hosted on Blogger.
Okay, you detected my IP address. You figured out that I am in Japan and try serving me what you think is good for me.
The problem is that I don’t know the language. And...
FriendFeed →
Just to be impartial I’ve started using FriendFeed too ;)
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Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor →
Forgoing sleep is like borrowing from a loan shark. Sure you get that extra hours right now to cover for your overly-optimistic estimation, but at what price? The shark will be back and if you can’t pay, he’ll break your creativity, morale, and good-mannered nature as virtue twigs.
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SecondBrain →
Started to use SecondBrain today. It’s quite impressive.
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Take the internet's emotional pulse with Twistori →
April 2008
11 posts
“I’m a technical sourcer for Microsoft, and I’ve been trying to contact...”
– Someone with serious identity problems
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iKnow! updated →
We’ve updated iKnow! this morning — for all the details about what’s new and improved check out iKnow’s blog.
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xeal.ro went MIA
I haven’t realized, till today around noon, that my Romanian blog was no longer accessible online…
I wanted to write a quick post today and when I tried accessing it instead of the normal blog page, it returned a nasty “Server not found. Error 404”. Thanks Blogger for being so reliable :(
After about one hour of digging through the Blogger Help and reading lots of...
“Every time you use “just” to describe a feature or a process it...”
– Chris Cummer in a comment on All I need is a Programmer.
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Alex Kerr
(Re)discovered today Alex Kerr’s website. Very interesting stuff!
I really like his calligraphy page, and in particular how he wrote the kanji for Magic (魔 Ma - in Japanese).
Maybe I should buy&read his first book Lost Japan.
Even better would be to buy one of his calligraphies :)
“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put one...”
– Miles Kington
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“I always wanted to blog about love. Will do.”
– Fresco
“Japan needs more love. Let’s give it some.”
– Fresco
“It’s just another beautiful sunny day here in Tokyo.”
– Fresco
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This morning [at my desk]
Alain: Go to [company].co.jp.
Me: (Looking around lost) Go to where?
Alain: *Type* [company].co.jp in your browser!
Me: Ah, okay... "Server not found"
Me: No, we cannot be *that* stupid!
Me: Typing www.[company].co.jp ... Site loaded.
Me: Yes, we can!