Archive for December, 2006

Mark Powell’s (a.k.a. locaburg) new book, Very Important Person, is available for order


Well, as long as you speak enough Spanish to get through the ordering process on Mexico’s Librerías Ghandi and you can stomach the ~290 peso shipping charge to the US

Why do services like ATMs and hotels have so many hidden fees, when the free market should encourage moderating competition?


Maybe this explains why there isn’t a mobile phone provider in the US offering unlimited service, which otherwise seems like a no-brainer to me.

Rails tip: getting this error when you try to do a rake migrate on a shared server, even though your app can access the database?

Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

Try specifying 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost in your database.yml.

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An article about burnout from New York Magazine


“Ayala Pines, a researcher in Israel who’s looked at burnout in all sorts of inspired contexts (including marriage), rather heartbreakingly sums up the problem as ‘the failure of the existential quest’—that moment when we wake up one morning and realize that what we’re doing has appallingly little value.” (via)

Subversion commit hook for Basecamp


I hacked a copy of this together yesterday for my subversion server, and it kicks ass.