Archive for June, 2005

Installing Ruby is a long-ass process.

Thursday, June 23rd, 2005

I'm taking the plunge and I've decided I'm going to learn Ruby. The point of this is to learn Ruby On Rails. Ruby seems like a great language that has built-in support for all sorts of cool things that make websites more like regular apps. So, first things first...I ...

Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005

The guy over at StyleGala Matt Round put together a nice little flash game entitled: "Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?" (Based on the title of this post, its pretty surprising. I know.) Its a nice job and a fun game. I scored a 9/10, but I did have ...

Random Blog of the Week #7

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005

Thats right, I'm still doing this. This week's blog is one that I jsut recently found and linked to. If you saw the article "Cool Guy T-Shirts" found to be not as cool., that source of that post, blagg blogg, is this week's Random Blog. blagg blogg is more of a ...

Billy Corgan to reform the Smashing Pumpkins

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005

On the same day that he released a solo album, Billy Corgan announced that he has decided to reform the group that he broke up in 2000. Hardly surprising since no matter what project Corgan worked on since the break up, as the linking article states, he has and ...

One year older…sadly no more mature.

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005

You see that guy studying that cheese stick there? You look at him and you think, "No way is that guy any older than 15." Well as of today, that guess is even further off. I'll just get this over with...today is my birthday (I'm 24). So what ...

Keaton Still #1 Bat; Bale A Close Second And Gaining

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

I saw Batman Begins last night and it was good. Certainly better than the last few Batman movies. No spoilers here, so read on without fear. The story of Batman is supposed to be dark, dirty and violent. The story of one man who could make ...

eMacs suck to work on.

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

Jay, over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog had is eMac start to die on him this week so he decided to take it apart and replace the hard drive. It sounds much easier than it turned out to be. Once you get inside, things get worse. With the power button ...

Fans dumpster dive to save a game

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

This is the kind of stuff that I just love to see: A group of old fans of a long since discontinued game Castle Infinity, went through the dumpsters of the company and pulled the old servers where the game was residing and brought it back to life. They are ...

The Perry Bible Fellowship

Monday, June 20th, 2005

I was recently pointed in the direction of a site that houses the complete archive of a weird little comic strip. The Perry Bible Fellowship, is a strip drawn weekly by Nicholas Gurewitch. From the site: The Perry Bible Fellowship first appeared in Syracuse University's Daily Orange. In September of 2003, ...

YAAP: (Yet Another Apple Posting)

Friday, June 17th, 2005

Mike's post about the argument between him and Lois made me realize that I never officially stated my complete and total love for my Mac Mini. I wanted to wait a week or two after getting it in the mail, and that turned into a month and then that ...