These commercials over at Rails Envy are great. Super entertaining. I actually laughed out loud. I found these via the Riding Rails blog.
Blog Archives
Star Wars – The Legacy Revealed
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Watched Star Wars – The Legacy Revealed last night on the History Channel. Interesting to hear correlations to other mythologies. I highly recommend this one.
Interview with Joel Spolsky on Hiring Technical Talent
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Check out this interesting interview on Technometria with Joel Spolsky (from Joel On Software) on Hiring Technical Talent. I like Joel’s philosophy of focusing on the people causing great things to happen. Definitely a must listen for managers.
InstruMental Case Instrumental Guitar Podcast
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Dave B, the creator of the Guitars Suck video series has started the InstruMental Case podcast, a podcast dedicated to instrumental guitar music. The pilot episode (episode 0) has been posted and I have to say, I like it!
Quote For Today
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“…the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.” – Steve Jobs (quote from Quotiki)
Lecture from Linus Torvalds on Source Control
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Check out this really interesting lecture by Linus Torvalds on Git, the source control system he started for the Linux kernel. Its an interesting talk, where he compares Git with other version control systems.
Steve Vai Live in Chicago
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I just ordered our EVO Experience tickets for Steve Vai’s stop in Chicago in September. Now I’m jazzed! This will be the second EVO Experience that Jonna and I have attended.
C64 and Unix WordPress Blogs
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These are the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while. Check out this wordpress blog that emulates a Commodore 64 CLI. There is also one that emulates a Unix command line. See the test run page or download the theme.
2007 Goals – AllConsuming
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One of my 2007 goals is to try to keep my All Consuming page up to date. I read a lot (though I tend to jump between books unless I find something really engaging) and want to keep record of where I am. I spent some time this morning updating my “should list“, if your interested in seeing it.
Vegas Pictures Online
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Jonna and I spent a relaxing four days in Vegas, and then a good deal of today getting our pictures up to our Flickr accounts. Each of us took a camera on this vacation. There’s a bigger post coming, but hey – I’m on vacation. Here are the links: Ron’s Photos and Jonna’s Photos.
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