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In today’s world, a fax seems positively archaic, and so when I left the shared office building where one was provided, I decided I wouldn’t get one to replace it.

And it’s worked quite well, except …

If you’ve tried following the latest advice on Rails server setup over at the Riding Rails blog, you’ll have found that it breaks the request.remote_ip by making it always return 127.0.0.1. Useless.

I’m using the uptime monitoring service, which requires your site to have a certain URL that will return “success” if everything looks fine.

With that in place, go create an account at Clickatell or …

... my last post at OpenACS.org.

Shortly before that, Guan had showed me David’s first slides describing Rails. Shortly after that, we asked David to come demo Rails to us. That was it, this was what I…

Arthur Sulzberger via Donna Bogatin at ZDNet: “The New York Times [...] supports a $200 million annual “news gathering” budget, [and] as digital has brought in $200 million in annual revenue, interact…

DR has launched a DR-branded wikipedia site about sports.

It’s interesting to see DR experiment with wikis, in particular helping the Danish language Wikipedia site get more attention, but I’m not sur…

Mark Cuban: To me, the proof is always in the details. No matter what business Im in, most people work in headlines mode. They think that if they say or write something that makes a good headline , th…

I was having an off day yesterday, so I watched the Stephen Colbert talk at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner again, and it was really worth watching again. His humor and logic is flawless, a…

I loved Guy Kawasaki’s book, Thae Art of the Start, which Christina pointed me to after having experienced this talk last year. Now there’s a video of the talk on Guy’s web site. Great stuff, 40 minut…

Wow, this guy built a free dating site, making money through Google AdSense, and the picture shows a cheque for almost $900K CAD, covering 2 months. That’s serious money for a one-person shop.

I find i…