Rants

I've had an iPhone for about a month now, quite loving it. Today I decided to add some custom ringtones to it, so I went into iTunes and clicked the button to sync ringtones…

I can't help but get totally baffled when I see a business model like this. Yes, that's right, you can pay for the privilege of keeping a copy of your distributed version control system (DVCS) private repositories on someone else's machines.

Rails, and Ruby in general has had Capistrano for awhile now to help with the task of deployment and automating builds for servers, and even clusters of servers. Where is something like this for Python?

On the Internet, I frequently see terms misapplied to other contexts. Whether its a basic definition misapplied to a different realm, or an analogy grossly misapplied to a context that is not in fact similar.

Tonight I was drifting through Upcoming to see what's happening in my area. Turns out the first page of 50 some events only covered today…. and its a ‘boring' Wednesday. As I flipped through page after page, eventually getting all the way up to this upcoming Sunday… it occurred to me that there is way way too much happening within a mere 30 miles of me.

I've been seeing more and more movies I wouldn't mind actually buying… except that I have a 56" HD TV set. It looks amazing, pretty good with DVD's, but really amazing with HD so if I'm going to buy a movie I sure as heck want it in HD.

I was talking with my grandfather recently about various technology bits when he mentioned this awful trend he had started to notice on websites. Just the mention of an awful trend with the knowledge that his eyes weren't what they used to be elicited similar anger from me, mainly, that there seems to be a significant increase in low contrast websites.

I keep seeing blogs and blog comments pop up with some very odd notions. Many of these are summed up in this comment from a recent post by Tim on Ruby books

Ruby is a fairly interesting programming language, from the “expressive” syntax to some of the absolutely bizarre documentation. For a Python programmer, the lack of predictability and almost excessively concise syntax (when just one more line would really make things a lot clearer) can be a bit of a downer.

I've owned my 2004 Silver Prius for about 18 months now, and in that time the only ‘problem' I've had is the hilariously named Red Triangle of Death often fondly referred to as the Red Triangle of Doom as well (I shall now refer to it as the RToD).