http://jay.mcgavren.com/blog my voice is my passport Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:15:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en see famous look-a-like faces http://jay.mcgavren.com/blog/archives/995 So, looking up Dr. Horrible last night led me to find a whole slew of great web video series: The Guild Retarded Policeman Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show (haven't fully watched this yet, but it seems promising) I'll be keeping an eye on these to see if they monetize themselves successfully. If even ... http://jay.mcgavren.com/blog/archives/993 Lenny saw a multi-exposure photo on Flickr and thought it was pretty cool, so I gave him a quick demonstration of how to duplicate the effect in Photoshop: http://jay.mcgavren.com/blog/archives/992 jay@MIDORI:D:\applications\InstantRails-2.0-win\rails_apps\test $ ruby script/generate scaffold Recipe title:string instructions:string Man, you miss out on a lot if you're following Rails 1.0 tutorials. In fact, I tried ... http://jay.mcgavren.com/blog/archives/989 NerdsOfAFeather.com is taken by a squatter. How %$#@ing clever do I have to be to get a cool domain name?! Maybe I just need to get rid of this fixation on getting a .com... Surely laymen know about .org, .net, and .us by now... http://jay.mcgavren.com/blog/archives/987 Was gonna do a fake book cover for Speaking LOL, published by O'RLY, but in Googling for materials found that someone had automated the whole process (and that a LOLcats cover was one of their examples). So I did this instead: Zyps: Game Development the Lazy Way The real book, less ... http://jay.mcgavren.com/blog/archives/983 Sitting here looking at the Civic's odometer - 100,004 miles. It made it (no thanks to me), and is probably good for another 100,000. http://jay.mcgavren.com/blog/archives/986 This appeared in the business case for document for a new automated process... Today [product] data is entered manually, input individually to [two separate systems], consuming a minimum of four full-time employees per work day. "My God, it ate Phil! He's barely completed training!" http://jay.mcgavren.com/blog/archives/982 Got a recommendation to read Kent Beck's Extreme Programming Explained, and while I'm not ready to endorse it yet, there's definitely a few quotes I like: "Courage is effective action in the face of fear." "The cost of the redundancy is more than paid for by the savings from not having the ... http://jay.mcgavren.com/blog/archives/981 Sweet Time Travel Service 16518 Norwood Dr Tampa, FL 33624-1165 Phone: (813) 962-1211 http://jay.mcgavren.com/blog/archives/979