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links for 2008-05-22

Eric — Thu, 22 May 2008 07:33:38 +0000

Content is not Data

(tags: content data cms manage)

links for 2008-05-07

Eric — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:36:08 +0000

links for 2008-04-25

Eric — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:35:25 +0000

Rails Envy: Ruby on Rails Caching Tutorial

(tags: rails caching rubyonrails ruby cache tutorial performance memcached)
Scaling Rails Presentation

(tags: Rails scaling performance scalability ruby optimization mysql)

links for 2008-04-23

Eric — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:38:25 +0000

Iguana Attack!

Eric — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:28:12 +0000

moar icanhascheezeburger

Motivation

Eric — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:56:41 +0000

Sometimes you need a little motiation to have a strong finish for the week. Here is mine. Looking forward to some jetskiing this weekend at Magen’s Bay. I still need to figure out where to get some waterproof iPod speakers so I can loop the Miami Vice theme song while skipping across the waves.

Secondly I wanted to see what people thought of the picture quality I’ve been posting. So far I’ve only been blogging from my iPhone which is super convenient with Blogger’s email style posting (beach blogging!). It also means I’m restricted to the iPhone’s 2 megapixel camera (which isn’t horrible), but I do have my Sony T200 8MP camera for hi-res shots as well.

Thoughts?

Travel math

Eric — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:19:32 +0000

While waiting at baggage claim today I was wondering why I haven’t experienced the traveling consultant version of hitting the lottery: having your bag come off the conveyor *first*. First out of baggage claim means first in the taxi line and less time at the airport, score!

I do a fair amount of travel (more lately) but I still haven’t had the baggage claim rock star experience. So, according to Wikipedia, the 3 class layout of the venerable 747 has a passenger capacity of 416 cattle. Say about .75 bag per person? (I figure we consultants travel light and make up for the family of four going to Disney) That makes it a measly %0.32 chance each flight. Better than PowerBall I guess and I didn’t even need to dig out my old TI-85.

Sorry for the math post, but I was really bored as you might be able to tell.

Windchill

Eric — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:51:30 +0000

Average temp in St Thomas 82, tonight’s temp: 77.I realized that you may have spent too much time on a Caribbean island
if everyone around you is in hoodies and you’re complaining that it’s
“a little chilly” when it’s 77 degrees out.

Also, I just wanted to complain about the signal to noise ratio of
certain mailing lists. It irks me that while some of us are busy
grinding it out others are involved in long threads on the correct
location to have another conversation.

And yes I do realize the irony of complaining about hard work on an
island. Either way my email filters are much more robust now.

Frenchtown, St. Thomas

Eric — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:13:52 +0000

St. John trip

Eric — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:27:46 +0000

Today was a vey rough day of snorkeling and relaxing at Lameshur Bay beach. At this point our whole group has gone native and converted to island time. Even the beach is tiring.

Luckily we had our trusty Jeep Patriot to navigate the washed out dirt roads. I have to say that I wasn’t really a big fan of the Patriot at first, it’s boxy, tiny on the inside, and sucks gas, but today it earned it’s keep on the hilly roads on St John.
We also stopped off at Woody’s afterward and had some great fried grouper. Next I need to get a speargun to start catching my own dinner.Very rough.