http://apocryph.org Notes to my future self Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:52:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Senators Webb and Warner: Today Senator Nelson was somehow swayed (no doubt with favors most outside Washington would consider "bribery") towards support of Senator Reid's as-yet-unread legislation to "reform" 1/6th of the nation's economy to the tune of $1 trillion in debt and a sweeping expansion of federal power over individual ... http://apocryph.org/2009/12/19/open-letter-to-virginias-senate-delegation/ I've had the Motorola DROID for about a month now.  It's my first smart phone, and only my second phone with a color display, so I'm catching up on the last several years of phone innovation. Early impressions: Battery life is much lower than my K1m.  I have to charge it every ... http://apocryph.org/2009/12/12/motorola-droid-one-month-in/ Mystic Monk Decaf Coffee Shop Stool 5.11 long sleeve shirt in blue oxford and light blue plaid size XL Mya Saray "Alpine" hookah (be sure to take advantage of the 'Multiplier Effect' promotion to upgrade to a four hose for $10 more) (10% off coupon code 'hookahdomain' may or may not work with ... http://apocryph.org/2009/12/08/christmas-2009-wishlist/ No sooner was the ink dry on my rant about how Google screwed me over with separate Google Apps and Google accounts than I found a (partial) fix. No, you still can't merge the two accounts, but you can remove Gmail from your Google Account, thereby putting it ... http://apocryph.org/2009/11/13/pro-tip-fix-your-google-account-after-gmail/ For years I've had a Google Account under my personal email account, anelson at apocryph. It so happens that anelson at apocryph is a mailbox on a Google Apps-hosted domain, so I get GMail-like email capabilities, but as far as Google Accounts is concerned it's a third-party email address. ... http://apocryph.org/2009/11/13/pro-tip-dont-ruin-your-google-account-with-gmail/ I've finally finished geotagging and uploading my Kyiv photos. I didn't get the chance to take as many as I would have liked, and many of them didn't turn out as well as I would've liked, but there are still some pretty good shots in the bunch. The Flickr set ... http://apocryph.org/2009/10/31/photos-from-kyiv-trip-are-up/ I've been playing with the new StackOverflow Careers beta. Today they released a bunch of new features, which makes it pretty cool. If it had the ability to generate Word and plain-text resume files from the site, I would abandon my Word-based resume entirely. Hopefully that's coming. You ... http://apocryph.org/2009/10/28/trying-out-new-stackoverflow-careers/ I'm pretty late in posting the video from last month's 2- and 3-gun matches at SEG, but better late than never. 9-September 2-gun I didn't do too well on this match. I placed 10th overall, most because of slowness than point penalties. Stage 1 was a bitch, because it required ... http://apocryph.org/2009/10/12/video-from-september-2-gun-and-3-gun-matches/ Today was the monthly IDPA shoot at SEG. I did pretty poorly, and was even in danger of being beaten by Gumbel. I'm not sure why I shot so badly, but the whole night I was definitely off. I was missing easy shots, forgetting the course of ... http://apocryph.org/2009/09/03/shoot-idpa-at-seg-today-did-poorly/ I've been running the latest RubyInstaller preview for Ruby 1.9.1 on my Windows boxes.  It's way better than the old 1.8.x stuff, but some things are harder than others.  One thing that's tricky is getting some gems installed that build from source.  I recently had cause to install the 'pg' ... http://apocryph.org/2009/08/31/installing-pg-gem-with-rubyinstaller-1-9-1-preview2/