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Ruby is the new thing…

I mean Ruby ain’t new, I seem to remember seeing it many many years back, though I had no use for it.

I’m still not sure I have a real use for it, but this Ruby on Rails thing does look interesting, and people are saying that PHP may lose out to Ruby eventually… Of course PHP has some steam left it in as well.

You know, I’m still a Perl guy at heart, but I ended up getting into PHP because the apps I was interesed in were written in PHP. Perhaps someday the apps I’m interested in will be written in Ruby, and then I’ll take a look at it.

As it stands today this isn’t good:

  bash$ which ruby
  /usr/bin/which: no ruby in (/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/pete/bin)

Besides, if I look at certain companies I know, PHP is just now beginning to make inroads and find more use, so it may be years before Ruby shows up.

No matter, I have nothing against Ruby, I mean, as long as I can avoid ASP and ColdFusion, I’ll be fine. Heck, I’ll even deal with JSP! ;)

Odeo says:

Somewhere in an apartment in San Francisco, we’re making it easy for you to discover, create, and subscribe to fresh, independent audio content for your iPod (or whatever MP3-player-type-deal you prefer).

Pete says: Hey! Didn’t we do that last summer? I mean, except for the part about an apartment in San Francisco… Perhaps they aim to make it even more easier or something? I mean, we all know where the money is, and it ain’t in creating new things, it’s in waiting until those new things are no longer new, but well established, and then finding ways to make money from them, possibly by making a difficult thing easier, or by making something even more popular…

(You’d think I’d learn that lesson by now and give up on the new things and focus on the money making things, but I guess I’m just dumb like that.)

I was going to warn you people that a product called Plastic Wood is not something you want to let dry on your fingers. In fact, the only thing that might be worse is a deadly combination of Plastic Wood, paint and caulk, all welded to your fingers in one big messy goo.

I’ve scrubbed four times now and my fingers (where I still have skin) remain a bit white and wood colored. Oh well, it’s a look…

Ask has picked up the GeoURL baton and is running with it…

If that makes no sense to you, then see the GeoURL Log, which will hopefully explain things.

It’s still a bit beta (what isn’t nowadays!?) so it may be unavailable now and then, but it’s a great resource to have restored to the internets….

I’m wondering if there is a word for this…

Have you ever analyzed an email exchange or IM log for things like hidden meanings in words or phrases? Or noticed certain words that you and another person both use? (I don’t mean common words like “the” or “and” I mean uncommon or made-up words, or even words you used in a post in the last week.) Or maybe mispellings of words which give them some sort of meaning that maybe was unintended? And what exactly does that smiley ;) mean in the context of the words around it!?

So, is this a known and existing condition? Have I reached nerdvana, or whatever the opposite of nerdvana is? I’m sure some egghead somewhere has done a study on this stuff…

Do normal people deal with things like this or just us computer geeks?