Signing off

Got my own domain, so goodbye Netninjas its been fun! I am now at http://blog.rubyyot.com

Mine, mine, mine, mine all mine.

I signed up with dreamhost last night and now for $8 a month a domain is mine, mine, mine. Ooooohh I am so excited!!!!

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Moving along

I just added retrieve and lookup capabilities for Jots in tRuTag I just want to say that Jots has a great API. I pretty deep into del.icio.us but if I wasn’t I would use Jots instead. A very nice site all around, and written in Ruby no less. :)

Now I’m going to look at Yahoo’s My Web 2.0 and see what I can do with it. It looks like YADC (Yet another del.icio.us clone). Hopefully I will be as pleasantly surprised by it as I was Jots.

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RoR Hosting

I think I’m going to try Dreamhost. They have a good deal. Not sure yet though. Will also need a domain name.

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Huh?

Well, it’s addictive, fun, and lots of people are doing it, so naturally there must something bad about it. Right?

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Dinnerbuzz

Dinnerbuzz calls itself the social guide to dinner and drinks, and it looks like it is a promising site. I will add support for it to tRuTag. It is a tagged restaurant review site. Thumbs up!

tRuTag

I've made a first release of tRuTag on Rubyforge. I hope someone else enjoys it as much as I have.

Created one!

I’ve had fun with tRuTag and hope someone else will too. It’s really just a script written in ruby but it collects your tags from various sites and creates a webpage that lets you explore them on others. You can download here

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IceWM

Switched from KDE to IceVM last night and am happy with the switch. Also have started using vi instead of emacs for some things, though I still use Kate for script editing. No, I am not ready to let go of XWindows and I don’t know if I will be, though I have been using the tty windows more and more.

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8 - Ruby

The more I learn, the more I love it! It is by far the best language I have learned to date.

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Moving along

I still need to work on the Rubyforge page but the program itself is coming along as you can see from the sample image. I use it for my homepage now and have a cron job refresh it every night with my new tags. It’s been fun. I think it is time to do some clean up and then release it.

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7 - Two Jumbo Jacks

They are not the best hamburgers in the world, but they are big and 2 of them cost about $2.50. On days where you don’t have much money, forgot your lunch and need to eat they are very happy.

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6 - Doodling

It’s faster, easier and more subjective than drawing; and you can do it during meetings. :)

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5 - The ocean

There is something about the ocean that is so peaceful and happy. I love the sound of the water crashing on the ground. I love the look of the waves rolling in. Even the salty sea air smells good.

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4 - Ghormeh sabzi

My grandma used to make ghormeh sabzi for me when I would visit her. It is a Persian dish of stewed lamb and greens which is served over basmati rice. It is delicious and one of my favorite recipies.

(The provided link is not my grandma’s recipe, but seems about right, though I have never made it myself.)

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Flaming Mr. Goatee: Ninjas!

I had to blog this because "Brian has hit uopn an eternal truth, and that is: "I believe internet traffic to this MySpace account is going to increase considerably due to my use of the word Ninja. I mean lets face it, ninjas rule!". :)

3 - Good Coffee

Maybe it is a bit stereotypical since I’m in Seattle and all, but I don’t care. I have cut so many vices out of my life, smoking, drinking, etc. I really do enjoy this one and it is mostly harmless. Good Coffee, doesn’t have to be bought from a store for $5 a cup. When I’m at Starbucks I typically get the $2 Grande drip w/cream anyway. Good coffee can be brewed at home as well. It just needs to be the right strength and have a good bold coffee taste (unlike most restraunt coffee) without being tar or too acidic.

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Pick-Axe v1

I’ve been reading/referencing the first version of the pick axe. It not exactly the same as my goal which I implied v2. But I suppose that a potion of it is the same.

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