Hi everyone. Just a quick update on a couple of changes I am making to this site. Today I have started using FeedBurner to monitor my site feeds. So if you have already signed up for the old feed, please signup for the new feed instead. For anyone not familiar with RSS and feeds, I [...]

Two posts in one day… wow!!! I was going to leave this post for another day, but since I have already written it, why procrastinate anymore. Here is a list of my current goals. Now while non of them are really anything new, it is time that I write them down in a place where [...]

For anyone who doesn’t already know, I am currently working on a Web application to organize my tasks, goals and quite simply make my life easier by reducing the amount of needless thinking and procrastinating I do. This is the first app I have made from scratch using Ruby on Rails (RoR), and I am [...]

Don’t get me wrong I actually like Google Adwords. But there is a time and place for them. Here is a good example of how NOT to integrate google AdWords into your website that I came across while looking for AJAX tutorials today. Source: http://ajax.stealthsettings.com/how-to/ajax-basics/ Whats wrong with this picture? 1. Hard to distinguish the [...]

Today I have updated this site with Gravatar so that all you nice folks that leave me comments (you know who you are) can now also include an avatar. Gravatar ( Gloabally Recognized Avatar ) allows you to store an 80 x 80 pixel image on their servers. They even have a nice tool to [...]

When it comes to ‘quick start guides’ for new software/hardware components (aka installation manuals), more often then not they consist of pages upon pages of small hard to read text, detailing everything from how to install, how to configure, what to do if something goes wrong, and of course the 4 page reminder that electronics [...]