Multi-staging capistrano deployment with rvm, git and passenger
Here is an object lesson in the old philosophy of simple, convenient tools that focus on doing one thing, and one thing well, and also combine and inter-operate well with other tools, to create one monster flying space robot with laserbeam eyes that crushes everything. Here is what we want to do in a typical [...]
read and convert 3GP video using FFmpeg
Something I found out today when I decided to make a quick edit to a video taken on my cellphone: Newer GSM cell phones and devices (such as my now-dated Android G1) now tend to save video in 3GP format. This shiny new multimedia format may have many advantages, but it is not widely supported [...]
ASUS Eee 1008HA – I fixed that for you
The ASUS Eee 1008HA is the latest in the popular line of ‘netbooks’ that are reportedly taking over the world, or at least the consumer electronics portion thereof. We picked one up from Amazon for about $419 as a way to keep in touch during summer travels (because, really, what good is a vacation if [...]
Meanwhile, behind the walls of Redmond
Somewhere, there are people who had to sit through this being shown on a giant screen at a sales meeting, and resisted the urge to gouge out their own eyes with a spork. My compassion for humanity reaches new highs.
gut checks
8 really scary predictions from FORTUNE Marc Ambinder in Atlantic: It’s quite unsettling to talk to members of Barack Obama’s transition teams these days
didja see me barrel?
131.9 cents per litre is somewhere between surf rats and shipsterns
some quickies for geekies
Some things this week: Why’s Camping for quickie site Git creative at github for quickie versioning duplicity for quickie encrypted backups to S3 stackoverflow for quickie answers Media Plugin for quickie embedding hadoop for quickie figure-outing.
the Whitney box variations
The minute waltz, non-prime and 120-harmonic-reversed are worth listening to for a few hours on end.
swindling futurity on a large scale.
“The system of banking [is] a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction… I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity… is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” – Thomas [...]
“the silliness is being vaporized”
says a long time Wall St. trader. If only it were so. Richard Fuld, the CEO of Lehman for the last 14 years, has had to suffer such indignities as cashing only a $40million paycheck, and seeing his Florida home lose about $4million in value during this housing crisis. Did he even notice this change [...]
