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2023
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- Helpful People
- Rails Form Redirect Not Rendering HTML
- Rails System Tests with Safari
- How To Teach Your Customers
- Why Does My Apple TV Suck?
- CDs Like Baseball Cards
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2022
- Silly Customer Service
- Before They Were Huge
- They Might Be Giants Flood Tour
- Travelogues: South Utah Day 5 (Rest)
- Travelogues: South Utah Day 4 (The Subway)
- Vin Scully
- Travelogues: South Utah Day 3 (Zion Proper)
- Travelogues: South Utah Day 2 (Dunes & Caves)
- Travelogues: South Utah Day 1 (We Fly)
- Travelogues: South Utah Intro
- Lutz
- Shatner in Space
- Shared Photo Library
- Anti-Leadership
- Markdown to HTML on macOS
- Two Newsletters
- Why I Went HTML Only
- HTML Only
- My Basic Salad Dressing
- Strong Songs
- Video Gaming vs Videos of Gaming
- Anti-Joy in Sports Commentating
- Auto-generate sitemap.xml with Rails on Render.com
- Watching a Musical Six Times
- Are Straight A's Worth It?
- View from My Doom Scroll
- Using a Kinesis Foot Pedal to Shift Modify a Mac Keyboard
- Trying Phoenix and Elixir
- Magazines at Your Library
- Numbr
- Everyone's a Starter
- log.txt
- Google Programming in 2022
- Tab Groups in Safari
- ActiveSupport Image Storage and Processing at Render.com
- Writing Is a Muscle
- Beginner's Mind Micro.blog
- Now Blogging at Micro.blog
- Movie Art
- Discomfiture of Thought
- Announcing Owatonna Even/Odd Parking
- User Groups
- Feynman
- Habit
- 30 Days of Exercise
- Dive Deep
- Sxsw 2011
- Make It Easy
- Nesting in Code
- A Week Off the Grid
- Books Read 2010
- Don't Let Failures Deter You
- In the Sixth Year
- Mac Bluetooth Not Available After Power Outage
- The Twins Secret Stadium Weapon
- Ruby Whenever and Day of Month Crontab Syntax
- Setting Up Watchr and Rails
- Co-Op Capistrano Deployment Script
- Books Read 2009
- JavaScript Optional Parameter Hash With Default Values
- Crush It
- Five Years Old
- Leaving the Corporate Nest (Fin)
- Security of Dreams
- So You're Motivated by a Tech Conference. Now What?
- Announcing Hai to the Ku: Twitter, Haiku and You
- Security of Ignorance
- Security of Loyalty
- Rails Date Calculations Could Stand Some Timezone Love
- Thawing the Brain
- Hardware and Software
- Educating Software Developers
- Announcing Time Warp Ruby Gem
- Filter Unwanted Tweets From Your Twitter Stream
- 25+ Celebrity Twitter Users and Their Follow Costs
- Fading Flash Message
- Announcing Follow Cost
- Barry Hess, a Story of Mistaken Identity
- Security of Stuff
- Announcing Harvest Co-Op
- Security of Group Health Insurance
- I Love You, Grandma
- Security of Income
- Security of Retirement
- Security of Employment
- Leaving the Corporate Nest
- Windy City Rails
- Blogiversaire
- Distributed Team Horseplay
- Post Redirect Get in Rails
- Fixing Slow Rake on Leopard
- Open_id_authentication Plugin and Remember Me
- Presentation: An Audience Perspective
- RailsConf '08
- Ventorium: My Lark of a Project
- MinneBar 2008 and Distributed Teamwork
- Five Rails Tips
- Virtual Teamwork or You Can Go Home Again
- Kauffman Stadium, Day 2
- Cold Kauffman Stadium
- A Rails Way to Track Additional Schema Info
- ActiveResource HTTP Basic Auth With Email Address
- HOWTO Commit an Incremental Rails Upgrade to SVN
- Move Server Configuration Files Into Your Repository
- Twitter Has Rewrite Problems
- Calling MailBuild AddWithCustomFields With Ruby
- Amazon Fixes Subscribe and Save
- One Year on the Lam From the Expected
- Awake, Laptop, Awake
- Meanwhile, Apple Says "Nevermind"
- SuperDuper! Is My Savior
- Amazon, Why Have You Forsaken Me?
- Two Macs? No Problem!
- Integrating Rails and Wordpress
- Assert_select Selectors Using Regular Expressions
- Rails Before_destroy Gotcha
- GTD Quarterly Financial Temperature Checklist
- A Rails Way to Popup Secondary Windows
- World Clock Project
- Ruby Console Spacebar Problems
- When Single-Table Inheritance Attacks
- Has_many_polymorphs and Checkboxes
- Rails Migration Max Key Length Error in MySQL
- A Model Diagram for Your Rails Application
- Disabling Markdown in Your WordPress Comments
- My Foray Into Has_many_polymorphs
- Rails Auto Select Text Field Tag
- TextMate Find in Project Slow in Rails
- Adding a Mongrel Instance to a Slicehost Rails App
- Make Sure to Properly Scope Your Ruby Mixins
- L'anniversaire
- Apple Ain't All That All the Time
- Ignoring English Articles With Regular Expressions
- Lakefront Property
- Syntax Highlighting With WordPress and Markdown
- Time Warp for Rails Testing
- John Carmack on Constraints
- Rails Maintenance Page With Images and Styles
- My Dad's First Twins Game
- Rolling Your Rails Logs With Logrotate
- Don't Forget the Return Value on Rails Callbacks
- Stubbing Objects in Radiant
- Redirecting a Subdomain to a URL at Slicehost
- Transferring Your "Cached" WordPress Blog
- Automatically Pull Photos Off Your Flash Card With Ruby
- Exporting Your Netflix Queue With Ruby
- More TextMate Dates for Your WordPress Blog
- Changing Tabs in Safari
- Popup a New Gmail Compose Window
- Adding Lightbox to FlickrMate
- Installing HAML Bundle for TextMate
- When Rake Fails but Tests Succeed
- Radiant Extension Gotcha
- Taking Notes and Checking Them Twice
- Specifying Date When Blogging From TextMate to WordPress
- Loading Up Windows Shares Upon OS X Login
- Change Default Text Editor on OS X
- Startup Camp Minnesota
- Minnebar and David Heinemeier Hansson
- Startup School and Minnesota Converge
- Why Not Internationalize?
- The Kid in Russian
- OS X and Web Browsing
- Startup School 2007
- Of Scrawlers and Startup School
- Scrawlers Has Launched
- Clear Rails Sessions on Dreamhost
- TextMate, Blogging, Wordpress, and Dreamhost
- Blog Simplified
- Firefox Nested Div Problem
- Detect Alphanumeric in Ruby via Regular Expressions
- Two Weeks of Web Developing
- Missing Log Messages in Ruby on Rails
- Subversion GUI on OS X
- Notes on a Book - Don't Make Me Think
- So What Is My Goal?
- Anchor Tag and Element ID Standards
- Full Steam Ahead
- Notes on a Book - the Long Tail
- Empowerment
- Notes on a Talk - Guy Kawasaki
- Notes on a Book - the Elements of Style
- My Poor Sleeping Body
- My Eyes! My Eyes!
- Wrestling With Your Personal Information
- MacBook Purchased
- Personal Information Management
- Lessons Learned
- Notes on a Book - Purple Cow
- Mac & Me - Dual Monitors
- Notes on a Book - the Big Red Fez
- What Have You Been Doing?
- Smidgen
- Lost in Episodic Entertainment
- Acting and Directing
- A Weird Thing Popped Into My Head
- Get an Emergency Fund
- Sea Change
- Interruptions
- Blogging Frequency
- Badlands
- You Down With DMV?
- Biking and Carrying
- Where to Go
- The New World
- Lacy
- Stupid Fees
- Estate Tax
- Gardenfire Watch
- A Long Weekend in Milwaukee
- What Does the "Da Vinci" Popularity Tell Us?
- The Bike Decision Approaches
- Parking at the New Twins Stadium
- I Need a Bike
- Proper Dinner Conversation
- I'm Tired of the RIAA's Bitching
- Warner Playing in Torrents
- ManBearPig
- Tasteless
- In Lieu of a Post
- Totten's Road Trip to Iraq
- Jason Mewes's Drug Addiction Journey
- What a Weekend
- Twins vs Phillies, March 14, 2006
- Twins vs Tigers, March 11, 2006
- Florida Trip
- Hooray for Florida
- The Time Sink Server
- Good Night, and Good Luck, Puck
- Moral Control
- Transporter
- Hair Bands
- Hollywood: Liberal or Capitalistic?
- American Gods
- Milwaukee
- Why Ring Tones
- Tax Season '06
- Augie Band
- In the Spirit of an Update
- What Do You Love to Do?
- Weekend Update
- Video Content Delivery
- Re-Education of a Computer Scientist
- Weekend Notes
- Cash Investments
- Webmail
- The Story of Wheat
- Ubuntu Installed
- Computing Hell
- It's About the Content, Baby
- Fall '05 Car Polish
- Santa Worship
- Vegas Vacation
- On to the Television
- A New Home Theater Option
- Netflix's Sweet Class Action Boondoggle
- Home Theater Wishy-Washyness
- Scarlet Fever
- Vertigo
- iPod Video
- Dragline
- Weddings
- God Is in the Details
- Our American Public
- Katrina
- You Know You're a Nerd When...
- Champion
- Suv
- The Self-Focused Life
- L'anniversaire
- Twins Memories
- Terroristic Threats
- 'Double Duty' Radcliffe Dies at 103
- How We Would Fight China
- Bits From Slouching Toward Fargo
- Freedom of (All) Speech
- The College World Series 2005
- The Irony of "Support Our Troops"
- Balls Out - Dock Ellis
- Comedian for Senator? Don't Laugh
- A Prequel to the Phantom Menace?
- Hibbing High School
- Bloomberg's Billionaire Boondoggle
- Star Wars III
- Hanger Bumps
- Nascar
- Sid Hartman: Twins Stadium Would Pay Off
- TV Now
- Stadium, F*** Yeah!
- Support
- IDiots
- Chicago
- A Twins Stadium Is Inevitable, Right?
- Another Drive Home
- The Drive Home
- Cartime for Bjhess
- How John McCain Reformed
- Bankruptcy Bill
- Wild Goose Chase
- The Village
- Most Hated Buzzword
- Tucker
- Evolution 101
- Speaking of Jon Stewart
- The Other Side of Secondhand Smoke Science
- The Quiet American
- Small Time
- 89.3 the Current
- Billions Served: Norman Borlaug
- The Ghost of Tiananmen
- Collateral
- Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
- Mac Mini Launches
- Man on Fire
- Congress Formally OKs Bush Election
- William Shatner - Has Been
- Iraq Casualties
- Published
- Four Quartets
- The Full Maria
- Lawrence
- Pendulums
- This Week in Movies
- Wyoming and Me
- Sleep Apnea II
- Sleep Apnea
- Before Sunset
- Notre Dame
- Electile Dysfunction
- The Whole Country Is Texas
- Last Day of Class
- Update on Me
- Has Bush Failed in Iraq?
- Which Side Are You On?
- Second Guessing the Second Guessing
- Bowling
- Better Than Two in the Bush
- Do-Si-Do
- The Fog of War(s)
- Lost in Translation
- Santana
- The Wiener
- What Am I Watching This Summer?
- Sick
- Slow Pitch Softball - a Justification
- Presidential Politics
- You've Been Drafted
- CableTV
- The SCFF Is Rolling to a Finish
- Oh Boy, This Could Be a Long Road
2021
2020
The Quiet
I disappeared from blogging for about five years. I was "too busy" and distracted from writing. I was not taking the time to share with others. Prior to that the three years from 2013-2015 were very light on blogging as well.
It's interesting (only to me) to see how political my writing was in the early years. Also, a blog at that time functioned as a social network as well. I wrote at times in a questioning way, asking my online friends for advice. Living out loud.
Entries prior to 2011 included comments via the Intense Debate platform. I have left the comments in that form for now even though they are ugly. I don't want to lose the comments, but it's also not worth the time to convert them to a static representation of the comments. At least not for now.