Author Archives: dru

Winter is here, and with it, I got my first cold of the season. The last time I had an issue was a sore-throat going around about 3 months ago. Before that, it was October 2006. Between the hallucinations and … Continue reading →

When using a few different Unix environments for development, the location of the socket for MySQL tends to vary quite a bit. Having to keep your database config different from the tree is a pain. Luckily, there is a neat, … Continue reading →

I used to work at Plaxo. The team there is pretty damn good. When they released the Pulse product, I really really liked it. My immediate thoughts were that they were really taking a fresh new direction. They were doing … Continue reading →

It will be interesting to see what happens, but I bet it will be too little too late in the game. Here is the announcement.

Dwight Elvey CanonCat Originally uploaded by drudru This is Dwight Elvey. I met him at the 10th Vintage Computer Festival over at the computer history museum. I was particularly interested in his exhibit since he had a working Canon Cat. … Continue reading →

First, I saw Sicko. A very good movie. Mr. Moore tends to target his messages to the people in my generation fairly well. Either that or we are easy targets. I think it is because we are probably the last … Continue reading →

“You don’t know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out.” — Warren Buffet

Ruby singleton classes, or anonymous classes are just a poor man’s prototypes.