I’ve been busy working, both for my job and to finish learning what I need for Ruby on Rails. I’ve been spending some time with Ruby on Rails again, now that the books have mostly caught up to the version 2 and 2.2 stuff, it’s making a lot more sense. I do find it a little funny that as soon as the books come out for 2.0 and 2.2, they drop 2.3 on the community. I haven’t looked at it much, but hopefully it...

I recently setup a new blog for my girlfriend using Wordpress, on a different host than this one (great deal I couldn’t pass up). We were looking for themes for her quilting and crafting site, and found some pretty good blogs and resources beyond the typical one, the Wordpress theme directory. First was a blog called ThemeGrrl, as the name and title suggests it is for more feminine themes, but since this was my girlfriend’s...

So I haven’t been posting because work has been taking most of my time, and at the end of the day the last thing I want to do is type. For an Update, I am no longer Ektron Inc. I left Ektron back in November, and now I work for a new company called Websolutions Technology Inc. It’s a great company, small and close knit. I get to work from home, one of the best, and sometimes worst, things ever. It’s great for obvious...

So I just upgraded the home PC, I still prefer desktops to laptops, to a new Intel Core i7 setup. I also finally picked up some SATA drives instead of the antiquated IDEs, and a 6GB triple channel kit for RAM. So far I have to say this thing is a monster. It is fast, Vista 64-bit boots in 30 seconds give or take. I’m still working to figure out why my bios says my drives are IDE, but they are running fast so I am not complaining yet....

For anyone out there that is interested and unaware, there is a new version of Wordpress out, 2.7. I just upgraded this site to use it, painless as always, andso far the new version is good. The admin interface has been overhauled and it is very easy to use. They added a lot of panels that you can show/hide and all kinds of flash. Don’t let it fool you it’s not just adding some sexiness to the platform for the sake of doing so,...