2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved
I never quite bought into the entire “global warming” thing. Sure, maybe the climate was changing some. It happens. Did we (humans) cause it in its entirety? Probably not. Are we another factor in a system so insanely huge that we don’t have any accurate models at all yet? Yep. Ever hear of the butterfly effect? That’s us, in the grand scheme of things.
Whilst it is good to take care of the planet we live on, things must be done within reason. We borrow our plante from our decendents, lets take care of it. Use common sense, don’t litter, take care of your vehicle. If you don’t need a hummer, don’t buy a hummer. Lets get more nuclear plants, those wind powered things just aren’t going to cut it. These are all reasonable steps in the right direction.
Posted in Uncategorized.
Yep. I played with one in the store, and then I had to buy it. So there went most of my dollars. I’m too tired to really talk a whole lot about it right now, but needless to say if you’re reading this, you should buy me the android book from my favorite publisher so that I can build you a freaking awesome application.
Posted in W00t!.
Tagged with android, g1, tmobile.
My Way News - Where’d the bailout money go? Shhhh, it’s a secret.
Yeah, this is intolerable. The bailout itself was intolerable, but this is worse.
Were we not promised transparency and accountability?
Posted in Gripes, politics.
Tagged with bailout, secret.
Ajaxterm. A much, much easier to set up alternative to Anyterm.
I think Anyterm might be better at operating at lower bandwidths, but ajaxterm blows it away in terms of pure simplicity to set up. If you’ve got your own server, all it needs is some python, and then some apache magic. it starts up it’s own server, so theoretically you could run it standalone, but I’m not certain of the wisdom of this.
I’m mostly impressed with how simple it is to make it work. You can run it as root, and it’ll use “login” or you can run it as any user, and it’ll run “ssh localhost”. The running as a normal user is probably safer, but you have to have some sshd on the system.
Posted in W00t!.
Tagged with ajaxterm, anyterm.
I haven’t yet completed an entire application in ruby (well that’s not completly true) and I’m already off on something different.
Groovy feels like Ruby (the name even sounds like it!) but it’s closer to java than Ruby is. That’s good for me to rapidly do stuff. I’ve found that whilst I do enjoy learning new languages and new frameworks, when I want to get stuff done learning the stuff is somewhat of a hindrance for me. Groovy, and it’s framework Grails, shows promise to be the best of both worlds. I (possibly foolishly) purchased the PDF and the Paper copy of Programming Groovy from the Pragmatic Programmers.
I think that if I were to have a favorite publisher, it’d be them. They’re fairly new, about five years old, and located in Texas. I’ve spent more on books through them than just about anywhere else. And I haven’t been dissappointed yet. I also purchased Pragmatic Thinking and Learning. I’m hoping this will help me become more proficient in learning things. It also is somewhat of an interesting subject to me; mastering the mind to further enhance my ability to learn and become an expert in my field.
If you’re looking for some good programming books, I can highly reccomend The Pragmatic Bookstore.
Posted in Coding!, Java.
Tagged with groovy, learning, pragmatic programmer, wetware.
