Design : Architecture : Art : Geek Stuff : Pop Culture

Late night in the office

2010-03-02T22:17:00.001-05:00

Sometimes I do a lot of waiting for stuff to happen.

Testing with Webrat

2010-02-17T16:09:00.001-05:00

You must follow the webrat installation procedure. Make sure you edit spec/spec_helper.rb to include the code below after the other require statements.

require "webrat"

Webrat.configure do |config|
config.mode = :rails
end

in reference to:

"You may have noticed that our tests for the layout links test the routing but don’t actually check that the links on the layout go to the right pages. One way to implement these tests is to use Webrat in an integration test. Install it by following the instructions at the Webrat home page and then fill in the code in Listing 4.29.12"
- Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example | Filling In The Layout (view on Google Sidewiki)

HTML Entities Reference

2006-06-29T10:01:00.000-04:00

I was wondering what HTML entities where available and decided to generate them. All of them... well the first 103500 of them anyway. You can see all kinds of useful characters from many languages. I was surprised at how many languages are represented. Mileage may vary based on your browser and installed fonts. Entity Reference (Digg It!)

The Root of All Evil

2006-06-27T10:11:00.000-04:00

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6193866746249268230

Bird Attack...

2006-06-26T10:42:00.000-04:00

Horde of killer birds attack innocent tree in an obvious avian terror attack.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6815781973393100875

Stick Figures in Peril.

2006-06-20T11:29:00.000-04:00

Those stick figures are in real trouble.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scroyo/171010415/in/pool-stickfiguresinperil/

Get Your Fake Identity Here...

2006-06-19T14:12:00.000-04:00

Reload for more Choices!
http://dev.allredtech.com/fakename/

Paris At Night 360..

2006-06-19T13:47:00.000-04:00

Three Hundred and Sixty Degrees of Paris.
http://www.arnaudfrichphoto.com/paris-panoramique-360-110.htm

It's Only A Matter Of Time Now

2006-06-14T10:04:00.000-04:00

Soon Our Robot Master Will Rise Up And Defeat Us!
http://www.zprod.org/zLab/sexedRobots.html

Delightfully Superfluous

2006-06-06T10:47:00.000-04:00

Awesomely Unnecessary:
http://www.jonnydigital.com/temp/loituma__.swf

Enjoy!

Know Your Rights

2006-06-06T09:52:00.000-04:00

I recently bought a used car and after hearing from a mechanic friend of mine all about the various contraband he has found in cars while working on them, I often wonder what a cop or drug sniffing dog might in my car. If I give the officer the chance he could find some seeds that the previous owner dropped and I could be charged with possesion.

Make sure you are well appraised of your legal right to NOT consent to a search.

The Main Site:
http://www.flexyourrights.org

Check out the movie clips:
http://www.flexyourrights.org/busted/movie_clips

Get your Chao in order.

2006-06-05T09:50:00.000-04:00

Chao is the singular form of chaos and it's pronounced like cow

Awesome Mentos Experiments

2006-06-03T22:50:00.000-04:00

Via Eepybird

Awesome Image Generators

2006-01-24T15:53:00.000-05:00

http://www.churchsigngenerator.com
http://www.warninglabelgenerator.com
http://www.streetsigngenerator.com

You Have Only 0.050 Seconds To Decide If You Like This Page.

2006-01-17T15:41:00.000-05:00

Can you do it? Apparently you can:
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060109/full/060109-13.html

Change the color of your terminal text

2006-01-04T15:03:00.000-05:00

You can use the following commands to change the text color of your
terminal output while a script executes:


echo -en '\033[0;31m'  <--- Red
echo -en '\033[0;32m'  <--- Green
echo -en '\033[0;33m'  <--- Yellow
echo -en '\033[0;34m'  <--- Blue
echo -en '\033[0;35m'  <--- Magenta
echo -en '\033[0;36m'  <--- Cyan
echo -en '\033[0;37m'  <--- White
echo -en '\033[0;39m'  <--- None (ie back to normal)

You can also change the background colors with the following codes:


echo -en '\033[0;40m'  <--- Black
echo -en '\033[0;41m'  <--- Red
echo -en '\033[0;42m'  <--- Green
echo -en '\033[0;43m'  <--- Yellow
echo -en '\033[0;44m'  <--- Blue
echo -en '\033[0;45m'  <--- Magenta
echo -en '\033[0;46m'  <--- Cyan
echo -en '\033[0;47m'  <--- White

You can see more examples of this in the Fedora init script "/etc/rc.d/init.d/functions".

Escape codes are a cool tool for making your scripts user friendly and giving easy to read feedback. There are many more to choose from like those that manipulate the cursor.

For a more comprehensive, albeit less charismatic, listing of terminal escape codes check out: http://www.termsys.demon.co.uk/vtansi.htm

What does the FBI know about YOU?

2005-10-25T12:25:00.000-04:00

You can find out. All you have to do is fill out this nifty form have
it notorized.

http://foia.fbi.gov/privacy_instruc.pdf

Then once the FBI is done rubber gloving you up. They will gladly
look in their files to see why you care what they have on file.

Disposable Email Addresses

2005-10-07T00:21:00.000-04:00

Make up ANY email address like "flibertyflipflap@" one of these
domains. Then go to the ssite and type in your "username" and presto
you can see your "mail". Then again so can anyone else who happens to
use flibertyflipflap@mailinator.com as their fake email address.

http://www.mailinator.com/

The Followings are all aliases of mailinator in case some form
validation is smarter than the avaerage bear:
klassmaster.com
fakeinformation.com
mailinater.com
mailinator.net
sogetthis.com

It appears that there are lots of these services:
http://www.tipmonkies.com/2005/10/04/disposable-e-mail-address-services

Best of Craig's List

2005-10-05T16:54:00.000-04:00

http://westernmass.craigslist.org/about/best/

Some of my favorites are:

A letter from the Porn Stars of America
http://westernmass.craigslist.org/about/best/bos/96327845.html

UPDATE: My CRAZY Pot Head Neighbor Lady
http://westernmass.craigslist.org/about/best/por/96326584.html

Stupid Spammers

2005-10-05T15:53:00.000-04:00

Worpress has been an awesome blogging system and I would hate to have
to get rid of it, however, in a strange turn of events I noticed a
weird post on one of my blogs. It seems that someone was able to post
a comment containing questionable content. It may have been a "track
back comment spam", but I am unsure as it was deleted post-haste. I
will have to post again should I come up with any new clues.

Tracitalynne

2005-07-12T10:23:00.000-04:00

I love Tracitalynne she is the best. See her spam talk Oh. Enid... it's hillarious.

Second test of the email posting mechanism

2005-04-06T00:33:00.000-04:00

THis is a second try for this: Supposedly blogger is so cool that you
can just send your blog an email and it will post the email to your
blog. If you are seeing this that is indeed what has happend. I am
impressed.

##END

Primary Post

2005-04-03T20:10:00.000-04:00

This is my first post mostly to test out what blogger has to offer. You don't want to read this. It's boring and useless to anyone but me. Too late.