How the heck am I going to know how the blog is doing…
Trying to connect to https://, fails. I went to google.com/analytics, and the login box doesn’t appear.
Blah.
You know what, I think it has to do with the browser. The same thing happened with panel.dreamhost.com. I’m unsure as to why the heck something like this would happen, but I’ll be on the lookout.
Finally, someone put it into words.
The True Cost of SMS Messages
via my ISP: $1
via SMS: $61,356,851.20
Lovely. So think twice before you send out that text. I’m happy I have a lovely 200 text cushion before I have to start paying anything, and I tend to refrain from using if at all possible.
This really isn’t a problem with the users: this is largely a case with the big companies. It shouldn’t have to be this way… I shouldn’t have to pay extra to get the same data, when it costs the phone companies exactly the same. Or at least, very little… I’m sure the actual traffic of text messages against phone calls are nothing, and yet, they’re probably making money hand over fist on texts.
I hate you, big companies that don’t look out for their customers. Jerks.
Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
If any single human being has read this book from beginning to end and can explain to me the insanity that is “why”, I’ll buy you a cup of coffee to do so.
I have given up on this book. From the looks of it, I’ve tried three different times over the course of about a year and got to about halfway (I’ve highlighted about halfway through).
Definitely poignant, but horrendously confusing. It definitely is a work of art, but I’m kinda impatient for this type of thing. Sometimes, the really really wonky humor is lost on me, and this, my friend, is a shining example of it.
Time to go back to the Pickaxe book.
It’s eerie. I feel it. I feel it in the feed posts I should be getting.
There seems to be less and less feed items about Rails in general. I don’t know… maybe it’s just me… Obie Fernandez says otherwise:
Simply browse the ruby links on programming.reddit.com or the list of over 2000 ruby-related links on DZone to disprove that lie.
But I don’t know… just this gut feeling that I can’t shake that there’s this feeling of meh-ness in the community.
A lot of things have been leading up to this point for me. Working with PHP at work and having Java as the core for StatusFix (although I’m not actually doing Java, but just being this near to it… makes me feel a bit different) is helping me see more and more that there really is no silver bullet, no matter how much I want it.
But that’s merely just an aside. The point of this post comes from Global Nerdy.

It’s very likely that we’re in or very near the Trough of Disillusionment stage in the hype cycle when it comes to Rails. Makes a lot of sense, if you ask me. The way I see it, the hype has worn off. And thank goodness it has, because finally, the Rails community can get to work on making awesome things and stop defending or attacking other positions.
As a crazed extremist that has to have his way, I feel like I’ve still got quite a long ways to go in maturing as a developer/manager. New technologies will come and go, and picking the right ones… well, that’s the hard part. It’s almost like… the stock market.
Rap Lyrics Explained With Charts and Graphs
Yes. I think it’s a good thing that I didn’t get all of these.
EDIT:
But these: Understanding art for geeks, I feel like I should have known more of these paintings.
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