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Archives for February, 2007

The correct spelling

Just so you know:

Oh, I want to add this.

We hateses Ruby’s float implementation. And the interface with MySQL floats. When “10,100.32″ gets saved as “10,100.30″, there’s a problem. Protip: Use numeric/decimal for your price fields, or split out the decimal and save the two values separately. Or use rails 1.2, which supposedly has numeric support in its migrations, though the float probably still [...]

I totally forgot I did this

On a search page: Use the text box to enter a search for first name, last name, username, or email address. Use “*” (without quotes) for a wildcard. *A* will match “Adler”, “Badger” and “Beta”. I’m just proud of the fact that I used the word “badger” on a production site.

Automotive awesomeness

I have no pictures of this, but I just wanted to let everyone know that on Saturday I pulled my girlfriend’s jeep out of the snow. With my Camry. That’s just awesome to me.

Black Ice (Saturday Picture)

I just thought this looked cool. It was hanging off the roof glacier.

Denoument

I finished The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess I feel sort of emotionally drained. Part of it is that I stayed home because I was sick and my head felt sort of funny. Mostly it’s that feeling when you finish a really good book. You can go back and re-experience the world and characters, but [...]

Michael Jackson, frozen in ice

“What if he doesn’t survive the process? He’s no good to me dead”