So, I’m finally getting around to learning Ruby. (Thanks, I’m pretty excited myself.) While following Dan Benjamin’s excellent Building Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, and MySQL on Tiger over at HiveLogic, I encountered the following error:
$ sudo gem install rails –include-dependencies Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::GemNotFoundException) [...]
I have this Alienware laptop for sale. It’s a piece of crap and I know it. I lay it out plainly and clearly. Nobody in their right mind would bid on this without knowing what they’re getting into. I put it up on eBay and set a reserve price of $200.00. [...]
I’m posting this because I’m sick of looking it up. The Yojimbo database is located at /Users/account name/Library/Application Support/Yojimbo/Database.sqlite.
Over at the Dilbert Blog, Scott Adams makes this observation:
You need a healthy ego to endure the abuse that comes with any sort of success. The trick is to think of your ego as your goofy best friend who lends moral support but doesn’t know shit. That’s sound advice regardless of what you’re doing.
Although I don’t really care too much for Dave Winer, he has a few ideas I agree with it. In particular, we agree on the subject of blog comments. This article sums it up quite nicely.
The way to give people freedom of expression is to give them a quiet place to post their [...]