Mutterings

Just a word of advice, ladies: don’t ever leave your sunglasses in my car.
The FiveRuns Sunglasses Project

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The weather was perfect for a few hours relaxing and listening to some irie riddums down on Town Lake. The place was absolutely packed and it seemed like every person around us was smoking some substance. I’m not going to conjecture what those substances were, although I do have my suspicions about the [...]

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Austinites, get rid of those old gadgets this weekend. Yes, the URL is misleading.
Recycling 2008

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Tammy and I are in. Who else?
Austin Reggae Festival (Apr 19-20)

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It’s always interesting to learn about your family history. Meet Clan Irvine:
Clan Irvine History
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So my latest project is a community site dedicated to race tracks. The idea is to have a searchable, browsable database of all tracks worldwide along with forums to discuss anything related to those tracks.
Off the top of my head, several things need to be built:

track database with track submission page
backend admin interface for [...]

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I’ve started a new project which combines several of my hobbies: rails, building websites and motorcycles. Coming soon: tracknowledge.org

Buy domain
Buy VPS hosting for website (thanks mr yin!)
Build initial beta site (in progress…)
Install nginx, mysql, rails, php and site
Announce beta to world

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Along with Isaac Asimov, Arthur Clarke was my favorite sci-fi author growing up. I consumed everything by him that I could get a hold of. I’m happy they both had long and productive lives. Godspeed, Sir Arthur.
Arthur C. Clarke, Premier Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 90 - New York Times

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Looks like I’m going to give a talk entitled “How Not to Build a Service” at OSCON 2008. I’m going to be discussing some of the mistakes made over the last year at FiveRuns and what we’ve done to correct them.
OSCON 2008
Portland OR
July 21-25th
The lovely Tammy is going to accompany me and we’ll probably [...]

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Tammy and I went to Waterloo Park near downtown to a free SXSW festival yesterday. They had three stages running with bands switching every 30 minutes so there was a constant stream of new music. We brought some folding chairs, plopped down under a tree and listened to five bands over the course [...]

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