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Monthly Archives: November 2005

Jesus loves me, this I know

29-Nov-05

I hitchhiked in to work yesterday, catching a ride just as the Kona rains began to fall a bit more earnestly — was it by God’s hand that I stayed dry by hopping into that van?
My driver and her son seemed nice enough and offered a little small talk while driving the Hana Highway from […]

Returning from distractions

26-Nov-05

I started a personal project quite a while ago based on how I acquire, process and store information coming into my life - developing something to help me organize an ever increasing volume of information:
>[T]here are two main tasks inherent in the process of assimilating new information into one’s life. The first is __processing__, the […]

Ajax ? Forget Safari!

18-Nov-05

This isn’t a repeat of the ’90s. It doesn’t take _that much_ to ensure your site works just fine in Safari.
Now, if you _need_ some sort of super-advanced Javascript capabilities that Safari can’t provide, I understand. But [Riffs][1], you’re a REVIEWS site. What could you possibly be doing that requires you to exclude Safari?
[1]:http://www.riffs.com/
And […]

Rails Tip: Static Pages with No Extra Controller Methods

18-Nov-05

I was reading [this tip][1] about using method\_missing to catch requests for pages you haven’t created a method for in your Rails controllers, when I remembered something I’d read _somewhere_ a while back.
You don’t even need that tip. If you have some static page you want to show in your Rails app, just drop it […]

Dating with Kundera

16-Nov-05

[Dating without Kundera][1] reminds me of my friend [Isabella, whom I wrote about recently][2], because she recommended _The Unbearable Lightness of Being_ to me more than a decade ago. According to this writer, however, that gesture meant little more than a pseudo-intellectual exchange of witty Euro banter between two East Coast proto-philosophers.
[1]:http://www.idlewords.com/2005/11/dating_without_kundera.htm
[2]: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/digha/dn-16-sv0.html
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