Monthly Archives: January 2008

When Idiots Write Science Articles For Newspapers

Flame on. I’m reading this miserable piece of excrement about recent debates in cosmology. I just got to this sentence: If you are inclined to skepticism this debate might seem like further evidence that cosmologists, who gave us dark matter, dark energy and speak with apparent aplomb about gazillions of parallel universes, have finally lost [...]

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assert_efficient_sql

Okay, now that I’ve griped at MySQL a bit, I need to say something nice about it: the toolset support (at least on RoR) is second-to-none. As a great example, check out assert_efficient_sql, a plug-in which allows you to write unit tests and check for inefficient SQL queries. At this point, it mainly looks for [...]

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Danger, Danger: Updating Feed to FeedBurner

Now, I’ve been promised that through the magic of .htaccess and WordPress plug-ins, all feed traffic should be magically redirected through the FeedBurner feed. And, if you hit the feed page directly, it seems to work out okay. But, if anyone is having trouble getting the feed, let me know ASAP. You can try subscribing [...]

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Guantanamo detainees are not human beings

It’s news items like this that make me really, really hate the Republicans: On the sixth anniversary of the imprisonment of detainees at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, a United States judge threw out lawsuit brought by four former British detainees against Donald Rumsfeld and senior military officers for ordering torture and religious abuse, ruling [...]

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Getting Rid of XML from HTML Files Editted by MicroSoft Word

So, at my current gig, we’re using Microsoft Word to edit FIT files. For an introduction to FIT, check out my post “FIT, AntFit, and FitNesse: Test-Based Communication Tools“. For a conversation on using version controlled files editted in MSWord vs. FitNesse, check out Todd and I talking over here. Anyway, we ran into a [...]

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