On a community currency related Skype chat that I’m a part of, there’s been a conversation that cycles around now and again about how the various national jurisdictions respond to community currencies, how they are likely to try and shut them down (as they did in the 30’s), and what to do about. Arthur Brock […]
Author: zippy
Amathanga ahlanzela abangenamabhodo
There’s a Zulu saying “Amathanga ahlanzela abangenamabhodo,” which means “Pumpkins also multiply for those without pots.” It means that abundance is the natural state of all human beings, but we have to have belief that it can happen and do everything we can all the time to make it happen. You can achieve the impossible, […]
Why I don’t like Apple anymore
So it’s been a while in coming, but Apple is no longer a company for me. This crazy patent they took out is just another example of why.
Upgrading postgres on Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6)
Well, I too have gone down the rabbit hole of having to upgrade compiled-from-source apps to 64bit architecture after moving to Snow Leopard. The hardest by far was postgres. The sad thing is that 32bit version works just fine, but the adapter gems for rails don’t, hence the need for the recompile. Mostly I followed […]
The Vow of Wealth
My friend Jean-François Noubel has taken the vow of wealth. I believe this has huge implications for all of us. It opens a path by inspiration and example. Read the FAQ too.
perl6
I was looking at how perl6 is coming along and found this: http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-5-to-6/ which is really cool. Besides being a really nice presentation of the material (including the “Motivation” section) there’s just lotsa nice stuff. Some of the new way outa here cool perl6 features: meta operators gather/take construct for lazy lists grammars Enums twigils […]
zuptime!
So today a bunch of our websites went down, and the scripts I had in place to monitor for this type of occasion hadn’t been updated for some time so the new websites weren’t even in the scripts. Upshot: I didn’t notice for too long. Then I went looking for web-site status monitoring tools, and […]