A quick note for any of you thinking of heading out to Snoqualmie Falls en moto right about now (late May 2007). The road getting there from I-90 was just fine, and indeed, at the falls there were plenty of bikers (no place to park, even!).
However, if you continue [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2007’
Highway 202 North of Snoqualmie Falls Sucks Right Now
Just How F’ed Is The U.S. Dollar? I’ll Tell You.
Here’s how F’ed the U.S. Dollar is right now. If you go for a bit of shopping in Montreal over the weekend these days, you probably pay with your credit card to try and get the best exchange rate. When you next get online and look at your credit card statement, [...]
How To Be a Biker
If you want to move longer distances than your legs (walking or biking) carry you, such as between major cities or, within our metropolises, from the mire of suburbia to the oases of interestingness, and the generally crappy mass transit options found in the U.S. aren’t compelling for your purposes, it seems [...]
Printing From Mac OS X Without Going Bankrupt
One thing about buying a new(ish) MacBook Pro loaded with Tiger: they really aren’t cutting a lot of corners. This includes in the area of resource usage (see e.g. memory usage, as you buy another gig of RAM). This, of course, is done in the name of an “Insanely Great” user [...]
Ruby’s ActiveRecord Makes Dropping to Raw SQL a Royal Pain (Probably on Purpose)
The opinionated programmers behind Rails have generally done a good job. (There are couple of FUBARs in their bag of tricks, such as the boneheaded choice to use pluralized table names (in some places) and use automagical pluralization code to try and mediate between the singular and plural.)
There’s another item I’d [...]
Making Subversion Set Reasonable Default Properties Like Keyword Substitution
(Programmers: skip down to the Meat section below.)
If you are so bored as to actually have read all the articles on this blog, you may have noticed that the “Id: lucas blah blah blah” string that shows up at the bottom of the articles. This is an interpolated keyword, put [...]
The Housing Bubble and General Financial Depravity
Yesterday the Seattle Times brought us this gem:
… the couple — with no savings and about $20,000 in credit-card debt — shopped for a mortgage to buy their 1,200-square-foot house in Tukwila last year, they heard the same thing from lenders and in a home-buying class they attended: Forget it.
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Hurrah for Kwiki
… and for Jeremy Smith. Thanks to Jeremy’s hack on top of Ingy’s quickie wiki, we can now get proper behavior inside of table cells.
In a nutshell, Kwiki didn’t handle things like italics inside of a table. This should fix it. Previous posts that used the stock Kwiki should be [...]