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"Most short cage derailleurs seem to recommend staying under about 29. Mine wa..."

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:40:45 GMT

"Most short cage derailleurs seem to recommend staying under about 29. Mine was 32. The formula according to a bike shop
website:
Chain-wrap capacity = (large chainring - small chainring) + (large rear cog - small rear cog). Example: 53/42/30 chainrings and a 12-27 cassette: (53 - 30 = 23) + (27 - 12 = 15) = 38-tooth chain-wrap capacity."

–short cage vs. long cage rear derailleurs [Archive] - Bike Forums

"Time to send that cop to prison where he belongs. He undermines any reasonabl..."

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:19:22 GMT

"Time to send that cop to prison where he belongs. He undermines any reasonable authority we give to the police. He and police like him are the reason that I have very little faith in any authority. I feel for the family of the young man who was murdered. I hope they sue the shit out of the police and they take that cop down like the pig that he is."

–ioerror: BART Police (in Oakland) murdered a man on NYE

jessehattabaugh posted a text message @ CNET Networks Inc

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:55:38 GMT

Getting back to work after a long weekend is actually kinda nice if you ask me. I got all that sleeping till noon out of my system for now

jessehattabaugh checked in @ CNET Networks Inc

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:53:55 GMT

"Swedish researchers at Lund University have found a clear link between the am..."

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:51:38 GMT

"Swedish researchers at Lund University have found a clear link between the amount of coffee a woman drinks and the size of her breasts. Amazingly, drinking three or more cups of coffee each day could cause a woman’s breasts to shrink!"

–Newsmax.com – Coffee Shrinks Breasts

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Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:22:27 GMT

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Karizma

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Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:21:47 GMT

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Must Watch: First Full Trailer for Henry Selick’s Coraline « FirstShowing.net

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:57:58 GMT

Must Watch: First Full Trailer for Henry Selick’s Coraline « FirstShowing.net

"Stalkers may use manipulative behavior such as bringing legal action against ..."

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:24:17 GMT

"Stalkers may use manipulative behavior such as bringing legal action against their victims. They may also attempt to diagnose victims with false mental illnesses. Stalkers may even threaten to commit suicide in order to coerce victims to intervene - all methods of forcing victims to have contact with the stalkers."

–Stalking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Psychological harassment This is humiliating or abusive behaviour that lowers..."

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:21:09 GMT

"Psychological harassment
This is humiliating or abusive behaviour that lowers a person’s self-esteem or causes them torment. This can take the form of verbal comments, actions or gestures."

–Harassment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Psychological abuse, also referred to as emotional abuse is a form of abuse c..."

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:18:11 GMT

"Psychological abuse, also referred to as emotional abuse is a form of abuse characterized by a person subjecting or exposing another to behavior that is psychologically harmful. It involves the willful infliction of mental or emotional anguish by threat, humiliation, or other verbal and non-verbal conduct. It is often associated with situations of power imbalance, such as situations of abusive relationships and child abuse."

–Psychological abuse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"You do not have the power to withdraw the charge. Once that 911 call is place..."

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:01:34 GMT

"You do not have the power to withdraw the charge. Once that 911 call is placed, the police will come and lay a charge. Despite your wishes, the police will not withdraw the charge. The matter will proceed to court."

–8 Common misconceptions about involving the police in your domestic dispute | CriminAlerts at TorontoCriminalDefence.com

jessehattabaugh posted a text message @ Booneville, AR 72927

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:43:41 GMT

Why are women so compelled to break into my email and change my Facebook password!? What is so hard about respecting privacy!?

I Know You're Listening

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

I Know You're Listening
It's basically Pascal's Wager for the paranoid prankster.

I just used Shazam to identify Anything Goes by Randy Houser.

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:36:02 GMT

Hi, I’ve just used Shazam to identify Anything Goes by Randy Houser. I thought you might like this track. If you have Shazam on your iPhone or iPod touch, tap here to add this tag to your list. To get Shazam on your iPhone or iPod touch visit the App Store. Shazam is free to download and use, so check it out.

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Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:22:18 GMT

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When is it abuse? When it's bad enough you call the cops?

When is it abuse? When it's bad enough you call the cops?

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:21:40 GMT

When is it abuse? When it's bad enough you call the cops?
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Elance

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:58:59 GMT

Elance

Elance is a global marketplace for freelancers. You post a job you want done, and freelancers around the world will bid on it in a matter of hours. Once the price and deadline are agreed upon, the work will be delivered to you very rapidly. Because of its global nature, your costs may be very low.

Elance has a pool of 135,000 pros expert in programming, design, writing, and legal matters. People use them to design a logo, create marketing materials, tweak a database, code a website, create an iPhone app. I've used Elance three times now and have had fantastic results. For instance recently I had to move 3,000 images from Cool Tools' old Moveable Type database to a new one in a very hairy non-trivial manner. Estimates from US shops for writing the necessary script went as high $6,000 and would take months from specs to testing. We went on Elance, got a bid for $250 to do it manually (without scripts) and it was done perfectly in a week. You could start a company with them. In fact Kevin Rose hired an Elancer to code the first version of the now-popular website Digg.

Elance's escrow service holds the payment and protects both the work provider and you the employer. The site provides status updates on work done, and plenty of communication between the parties. Workers must pass a competency test to qualify to be listed. Some freelancers can also pass expertise tests in a mild form of certification, say for working on java or ajax, etc. Elance freelancers did about $60 million of work last year and less than 1% of the jobs had any kind of dispute, and most of those were self-resolved by the fact that the entire transaction correspondence is logged.

While I went to Elance for cheap labor, others go to it to get jobs done in a hurry, or to find expertise that they can't find locally. (Fifty percent of Elancers live in North America.) If you have work, and you know what you want, this is a great service.

The real trick in using Elance, or its competitors RentACoder, GetAFreelancer and oDesk (which I have not used) and Guru (which I have used with satisfaction) is in being able to specify the deliverable you want without spending more time that it would take to do the project itself. This kind of outsourcing is best for bite-sized chunks of work. The more precise you can detail your job the better that Elance or the others will work for you. It's not good for consulting, hand-holding, or mind-changing assignments. But it can be cheap enough that you can try lots of things. It costs you nothing to post a job on Elance. (The winning provider will pay a 5-10% fee to Elance.) You can pay with PayPal.

And it is not just for coders. I hired a guy to run ethernet cable in our home, and others have found a videographer for their wedding, or a translator for their manual, etc. Like any remote relationship, you get what you put into it. Elance, Guru and GetaFreelancer use escrows, which protect you (and the worker). Elance has open bidding, GetAFreelancer has the option of closed bidding. To date, Elance is the marketplace that seems to have the most action so that is why I use them.

It's a great tool when you need to hire expertise.

-- KK

Elance

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Thu, 01 Jan 2009 06:19:11 GMT

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Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:11:01 GMT

Screw parties. I'm gonna rent a Zip car and go spend my NYE in the redwoods. Anyone want to come?

"That night, on 9/11, Rumsfeld came over and the others, and the president fin..."

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:20:30 GMT

"That night, on 9/11, Rumsfeld came over and the others, and the president finally got back, and we had a meeting. And Rumsfeld said, You know, we’ve got to do Iraq, and everyone looked at him—at least I looked at him and Powell looked at him—like, What the hell are you talking about? And he said—I’ll never forget this—There just aren’t enough targets in Afghanistan. We need to bomb something else to prove that we’re, you know, big and strong and not going to be pushed around by these kind of attacks."

–

Richard Clarke, chief White House counterterrorism adviser. Vanity Fair Magazine.

(via apsies : thebusstop : wayne-remy : robot-heart-politics : vruz)

We are writing [President Clinton] because we [The Project for a New American Century] are convinced that current American policy toward Iraq is not succeeding, and that we may soon face a threat in the Middle East more serious than any we have known since the end of the Cold War. In your upcoming State of the Union Address, you have an opportunity to chart a clear and determined course for meeting this threat. We urge you to seize that opportunity, and to enunciate a new strategy that would secure the interests of the U.S. and our friends and allies around the world. That strategy should aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime from power. We stand ready to offer our full support in this difficult but necessary endeavor.
- January 26, 1998

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Family Guy video: The Freaking FCC on TV.com

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:55:29 GMT

Family Guy video: The Freaking FCC on TV.com

Wired Says You Should Be Lifestreaming Now

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:48:39 GMT

Yesterday Wired posted an article titled 6 New Web Technologies of 2008 You Need to Use Now. One of those technologies listed is Lifestraming.

From the story

Sites like FriendFeed, Plaxo Pulse and Digsby serve as social-network-activity aggregators. They’re like virtual funnels. Dump in all the notifications, feeds and updates from your various networks, and the services will bring it all into one master stream, relieving you of the responsibility of visiting a dozen or more sites to learn what your friends are up to, what they’re listening to, who they’re snogging and so on. Controls let you dial back the flow by sorting and filtering the flow, pruning it down to only what matters most.

The other 5 technologies are Identity Management, HTML 5, Firefox 3, Google Chrome, and Location Awareness. You can read the whole story here.

Growing by eating less Cake

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:27:29 GMT

As you probably know I don’t get along very well with some core developers of CakePHP. I tried to keep this conflict away from what I write in this blog, but I wasn’t always successful with that. Some posts got a slightly negative touch. And it became harder and harder to avoid this negative touch because I’m also a bit tired of eating Cake…

So I have to change something if I don’t want to end as an unhappy developer/blogger.

And this change will be to eat less Cake in the new year. And to eat more ~~vegetables~~ other goodies. On my list are currently the Yii framework (Jonah Turnquist has recently written some interesting articles about it in his blog), flow3 (an upcoming PHP 5.3 framework with some nice concepts like AOP), and the usual suspects Ruby on Rails and Django.

Learning a new framework should help me to grow as a developer. And what do you do to grow as a developer in 2009?

A Happy New Year! And thank you for reading this blog in 2008 :)

"There is virtually no disagreement on this premise. In a survey of 75 of the ..."

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:03:08 GMT

"There is virtually no disagreement on this premise. In a survey of 75 of the world’s outstanding economists, J. R. Kearl and his colleagues found nearly unanimous agreement on the proposition: A ceiling on rents will reduce the quality and quantity of housing. [4] Of 30 propositions presented for review, only one other received the same level of support. Further, a poll by the American Economic Association of its members in 1992 produced a similar result."

–How Rent Control Drives Out Affordable Housing

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Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:53:51 GMT

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This guy built a fire-extinguisher style Zombie defense kit for his house. I need it!

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:56:24 GMT

This guy built a fire-extinguisher style Zombie defense kit for his house. I need it!

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Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:26:54 GMT

Happy to report our mess is still in our apartment, including the cat. Nothing missing, nothing on fire.

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Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:29:17 GMT

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Celeste

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Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:29:08 GMT

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Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:28:49 GMT

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jessehattabaugh posted a text message @ Burger King

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 17:18:54 GMT

Christmas eve will find me, where the love light gleams, I'll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams.

jessehattabaugh posted a text message @ Burger King

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:59:08 GMT

Missing Christmas because I can't seem to work my iPhone's alarm

New X-Ray Helps Those With Back Injuries - Local News Story - KHBS NW Arkansas

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:01:37 GMT

http://www.4029tv.com/news/18347835/detail.html

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Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:46:22 GMT

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"# Loves To Code # Gets Things Done # Continuously Refactors Code # Uses Desig..."

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:15:04 GMT

"# Loves To Code
# Gets Things Done
# Continuously Refactors Code
# Uses Design Patterns
# Writes Tests
# Leverages Existing Code
# Focuses on Usability
# Writes Maintainable Code
# Can Code in Any Language
# Knows Basic Computer Science"

–Top 10 Traits of a Rockstar Software Engineer - ReadWriteWeb

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Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:52:00 GMT

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"One of these evolutions started quietly in 2008. We are witnessing the rise o..."

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:39:29 GMT

"One of these evolutions started quietly in 2008. We are witnessing the rise of a new kind of web: contextual. You might not have heard or thought about it much yet, but you are already using it today. Search remains the killer app on the web, but context is quickly become a viable contender. Why? Because context is what happens instead of search."

–A Guide to The Contextual Web - ReadWriteWeb