I was looking back over my past postings…. I am pretty bad about writing stuff that is actually happening in my life. (I don’t even have a category for it.) It’s no wonder my family doesn’t read this much! In my defense I’ve been reading stuff from the sites I added to my sidebar now that it contains so many more links. Here’s a run-down on what’s been going on.

  • I developed a web application for Paxtel which demos the ability to query your vehicles via an RF network. You can ask its speed and location, among other things, and it will alert you when (for instance) its RPMs go too high. It’s meant for insurance companies and rental agencies, but will also be marketed towards consumers later. The whole thing was developed in two weeks of part-time work with some help from André. Whether it scales or not is an open question, but Rails is definitely not the bottleneck.
  • I listened to an unhealthy quantity of Blind Guardian music.
  • Alisha and I went down to Vista to see some of her family.
  • The folks from The Manor with whom I lived for several years are getting kicked out of the place by rising rent. It’s sad since the Manor has been a great place with a lot of memories, but I guess it’s time to move on.
  • I upgraded my desktop to Breezy Badger, the latest from Ubuntu. It’s absolutely fantastic. I especially appreciate the latest Epiphany, which has gotten me addicted to mouse gestures. I find myself wishing they were ubiquitous.

(Wow, that’s enough content for several blog posts. I’m trying to restrain myself and be economical here, but I’m not quite done.)

There’s something hilarious about the concept of spontaneous generation. “Oh yes, we have definitely moved beyond the idea that dead meat brings maggots into existence. Such a primitive, unscientific concept! However, primordal soup can do it just fine!” Read the article; it’s great. The only science in the article is the disproving of “whether mice may be bred by putrefaction”, but that doesn’t stop naturalist philosophy from spouting wonderful sophisms:

Such scientists pointed out that the disproof of Aristotelian abiogenesis applied only to “known existing organisms”, not to unknown forms of life or proto-life which may have existed under the vastly different conditions of the early Earth.

Can you say double standard?

In closing, kittenwar.com.