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.

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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.

One of the things I have done for a long time is create what the cool kids today call mixtapes. I used to use a turntable and cassette recorder, now days I use iTunes to burn CD’s for the truck. I usally do one every year or so, and I thought that I’d toss some out there for posterity’s sake.

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