You can count on me buying this one and wasting several hours this winter…
Xbox Live Arcade: “Seventeen years ago, you survived a vicious Pfhor assault on the U.E.S.C. Marathon. Now you have been awakened by the enigmatic, sentient A.I. called Durandal and sent to an alien world to uncover the mysteries of their advanced technology. In Marathon: Durandal, armed with only a pistol, you are humanity%u2019s last champion!”
Boing Boing: “The Socket Pocket is a replacement covering for your electrical outlet that includes a hinged pocket that sticks out of the side of the receptacle. The idea is to have a little pocket to stick your cellphone or other hand-held device in while it charges, keeping it off the floor”
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Redirects work easily in Rails. Modify the routes.rb file and the application can process it’s own redirects without messing with the server’s config files. This is handy for situations like my [wife’s business website](http://redbeedesigns.com) where her old content and URLs need to be preserved while the new stuff is being built.
Example: http://redbeedesigns.com/about and http://redbeedesigns.com/about.html look the same because the are exactly the same content generated exactly the same way.
Again, nothing new to a profession web developer, but gratifying nonetheless.
Tonight, time permitting, we’ll do some database work with the “[shop](http://redbeedesigns.com/shop)” page.
So I agreed in June to be in a mini-triathlon in August. We’re coming up on a month away from the start and it’s time to crack the whip. Race Training Overlord [Zarah](http://beautyschooldropout.net) sent me the training schedule that she and [Matt](http://kerner.net) use and it’s a knee-buster.
Thursday morning is a BRICK (bike followed by run) which should tell me if I can really pull this off. I’m doing the triathlon no matter what–it’s not like I’ll win or place or anything–because the goal is more important right now than the result.
I finished a bit of a milestone today with my [wife’s website](http://redbeedesigns.com). It’s now completely in the Rails framework of code! Each of the pages looks the same as it did a week or so ago, but now they use a common template and the HTML is built at the time of the request. Take a look at the bottom of the page–a simple Ruby “Time.now” command returns the time the page was rendered.
It’s not earth-shattering since things like this have existed for years. It just means that I made something hard look the same as something easy and sometimes, that’s the hardest thing of all.
Springfield GO Blog: “For what will likely be the hottest Art Walk so far in 2007, City Utilities and the Commercial Club are teaming up to provide free shuttle service between the respective First Friday events downtown and on Commercial Street.”
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Scripting News: “Now seems like a good time to refer back to Doc Searls’ piece on Steve Jobs, shortly after he returned to Apple in 1997. ‘These things I can guarantee about whatever Apple makes from this point forward,’ Doc said…”
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Steve Kirks 