Archive for the ‘Mundane’ Category.
Several things have happened over the last few months that gave me pause. Pause is a great time to practice mindfulness.
A few days ago, Les Paul left us. Walter Cronkite too. I was laid off from my job, and I got an exciting opportunity presented to me. Change has been pretty rampant. However the curious case of a hacker named _why has hit me closest to home.
On of the tasks that I have undertaken is helping out a non-profit called Railsbridge by increasing community awareness. They do a ton of really cool things – like Rails Workshops for Women (one upcoming in San Francisco!), Rails Mentoring, Student Code Reviews, and undertaking development efforts for worthy Non Profit organizations.
So, stay tuned – good stuff is going to come of this little project. We tend to hang out in #railsbridge on freenode, so if you want to learn more, or you want to see more, head on over, and I’ll see you there!
I found a new Linux distro last night, and I am really impressed so far – it’s Linux Mint, and I must say, it’s the most polished, pretty distro that I have ever seen. It’s based on Ubuntu, so it’s pretty much rock solid under the hood as well.
I’d say, if you get a chance – check it out. It’s well worth it. It installed with out a problem on VMWare Fusion as well, and it’s quite snappy.
Um – ok. not better then ever. This blog has had quite the interesting (in the chinese meaning) life. It started out years and years ago as a blogspot site, and soon was moved to WordPress. It then almost migrated to several other platforms, but ended up on Mephisto. Well, we’re back on WordPress for the time being. Will we stay? Probably not, even tho I like all of the cool toys baked in.