Category — General

Rails Training:

My partner in crime on my Ruby on Rails project, Mike Clark, is teaming up with Dave Thomas to put together a 2-day Rails Training Bootcamp in a city near you. Dave, of course is the principle author of Agile Web Development with Rails and Mike wrote some of the content for the book as well. It’s a great book and, having seen both guys in action in front of a room of people, this will be an excellent class.

If you want to know Rails, and you are interested in attending, go to the Pragmatic Wiki to express your interest.

i’d like to do this. we’ll see. i also want to do the oxford xml school next year

Today’s THV KTHV Little Rock:

An alleged armed robber has just had the beating of a lifetime, at the hands of nearly 30 women inside a Shreveport beauty school.Blalock’s Beauty School instructor Dianne Mitchell says, “Oh, I put something on him baby. He wasn’t coming up out of here and telling nobody he robbed us and got away with it.”

Building a computer-readable Web:

A new method of describing Web information is overcoming the problem of automated query and analysis of Web page information, giving rise to a range of new Web services.

this could be good….

www.markdanner.com:

We are divided, then,
between those of us willing to listen, and believe, and those of us
determined to read, and think, and find out. And you, English majors
of the Class of 2005, you have taken the fateful first step in numbering
yourselves, perhaps irredeemably, in the second category. You have taken
a step along the road to being Empiricists of the Word.

Articles, government corruption, freedom of speech, truth:

“If demolition destroyed three steel skyscrapers at the World Trade Center on 9/11, then the case for an ‘inside job’ and a government attack on America would be compelling,” said Morgan Reynolds, Ph.D, a  former member of the Bush team who also served as director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis headquartered in Dallas, TX.

something to think about…. let’s hope it is not true.

VidLit™ – Underdog Victorious – A Song by Jill Sobule :

i’ve always liked this song. it has been on sobule’s site for some time.

Bloomsday – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Anti-social networking:

Glenn Fleishman writes in the NY Times about a Seattle cafe that gives free wifi on weekdays but is wifi-free on weekends in order to encourage conversation…

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i think this is brilliant.

New Page 1:

Radio Memories – Journey Through Time Filled With Memories

Podcasts of old radio shows. ’scool.

A Quote Worth Noting…:

“Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.”

President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952

classic quote.