Velo, Rapido: This is about a few different things.

Work from April, 2008

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Why I Hate AT&T

Just hung up on the customer service automaton. I was having such a nice morning, but after the third time that my phone went on a wringing binge, I decided to call. First, they have no service request on file for my number? How's that? I tried filing one on the website but got no response. Now they need me to look up my most recent bill--why? I'm calling to say the line is broken. I could be the squatter living on the roof calling to say the line is broken. The line'd still be broken.

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Grist Mill

A lot of Napa, California started too look like some kind of Disneyfied shopping mall hell a long, long time ago. Wiley's there, though, and asked for my advice, which is usually this: visit the Bale Grist Mill and get an excellent tour from miller Eric Gerhardt. Ask ...

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Ruby on Rails for People Like Me

This is about programming, which only a programmer would know. Ruby is a programming language, rails is ... rails. It is a library of code written in Ruby that you can hook all together in a row and make do things, quickly. So they say. Like so many things, most Ruby on Rails sites for beginners assume we all begin at the same place. I'm beginning at a place where this particular tip sheet is useful. Our project is this: the Clinton Hill CSA has a database that works. It does things people need for it to do. I want to move it from its old host to our Dreamhost account, but since it won't just launch, I need to understand what I'm looking at a lot better. Soooo...

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Finally! (Kurtz Cleared)

I think this means he can get on with his life, but there could be more too it. His lawyers did file a motion to dismiss all the charges against him in January. I'm assuming this is the ruling on that. To get the backstory, see the CAE ...

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Defining Subdomains

Assuming you're using Apache. I'm using Apache2, so I can't even promise this will work on 1.x. Assuming you've got a BSD or Linux system. I keep coming back to this and my own archives are so scattered it isn't a lot of help. You need two things: 1) A virtual ...

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Apple sauce and some nice red beets.

On the train, somewhere in Rhode Island, looking out the window. Tea with smokehouse almonds, Tribe Called Quest. I remembered that I don't think it is a coincidence that I rarely notice contentment while I'm in front of my computer. Which is why my tweets are so surly, I'm ...

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Bricolage

After yet another edit collision on the Frankenserver's homemade CMS which does no type of file locking, I'm looking one more time at Bricolage. There is something I don't get, something about why it needs its own instance of Apache, but it seems to. I don't know why I ...

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Helps People

My friends at Icarus are looking for a volunteer to help maintain Paula Caplan's website. Will writes ... Paula Caplan is a feminist psychologist and lecturer at Harvard who works to critique sexism, racism, and other bias in psychiatric diagnosis. Her awesome website is www.psychdiagnosis.net. She needs a ...

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Window Dot Open

Who's Running for What is live, and it happens to rule. It also (happens) to rely heavily on Javascript pop-up windows, which are a little unwieldy if you haven't worked in Javascript for the last ten years.

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Anatomy of a Wee Attack

Word Press is vulnerable. Feh. ro8kbsmag.txt I have seen before but I was under the impression then that it was my own dang fault for failing to upgrade to 2.3 in a timely fashion. Plus it gave me an opportunity to change our password, something I do love to ...

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