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  • Installing Mysql Gem on Mac OSX 10.5

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    I’m playing with Mephisto tonight and I am making the trek deeper into Rails 2.2.2. For those of you who have been living in the land of 2.0.2 and 2.1, you probably haven’t run into the installation of the MySQL gem.

  • Seal Phone Home…

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    Sorry; this isn’t about Nigerian singers who marry supermodels.
    A monk seal has been released into the wild with a cell phone that sends text messages about her location.
    Seals with cell phones. Someone better tell this young’n that clubbing is NOT what she thinks it is….
    Seal Sends Text Messages

  • Virtual Murder Brings Real Jailtime…

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    …but the whole thing is real stupid.
    According to a story found here, a 43 year old Japanese woman got so upset when her ‘virtual’ husband divorced her from a Second Life type of game (called ‘Maple Story’ I believe?) — that she hacked into his computer with his login and pass in order to kill [...]

  • Flex, Limelight and Edge Servers

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    Diving into programming ScribeLive, the 2.0 version — which is being done entirely in Flex — I’ve run into the problem of not being able to pull in the Limelight video stream properly. I was banging my head against the wall — since I was capable of pulling in a live stream into Flex [...]

  • The Devil’s in the Spam

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    Was checking my email earlier today and found the devil.

  • Logical Awesome

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    Sometimes genius is captured in a picture. Add Spock and some turntables? Double genius.

  • My Mother is Freakin’ Retarded

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    Is my mother freaking retarded? Or am I John Mayer’s doppelganger? Well, to be fair, he IS the Kevin Costner of musicians.

  • Battle of the Batmans…

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    Sheesh – I’m old enough to remember Adam West… but I think Christian Bale is the winner. However Clooney had nipples. NIPPLES!!!

  • The Master of All things Flex

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    Garry gives me the finger, then gives a status update on the flex pay-media catalogue he is building.