http://blog.twosecondmemory.org The outpourings of an ADD mind Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:09:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I live in Australia. Australia is the driest inhabited continent on the planet (Antarctica is the driest) and we get a phenomenal amount of sunshine, as many Queenslanders will testify — Queensland has the worlds highest rate of skin cancer. Unfortunately for Australia we have lots of coal and more importantly ... http://blog.twosecondmemory.org/2008/06/14/solar-power-in-portugal/ It's about 13 years ago that I gave up eating commercially caught fish as a personal protest against the practice. I would eat fish caught locally (in fact the last fish I ate was a trout barbecued in butter and garlic caught by a friend's neighbour) but this only lasted ... http://blog.twosecondmemory.org/2008/05/11/why-eating-fish-is-not-as-good-as-you-might-think/ I've just been going round in circles trying to work out why my caching sweeper in rails was not working after I changed the relationship between two models. I have a post and comment model which was a has_many/belongs_to relationship which I recently change to has_and_belongs_to_many. That part was fine but ... http://blog.twosecondmemory.org/2007/10/09/rails-caching-woes/ In the name of winning two monitors from here I'm writting this blog post. Good luck to me! Oh what fun it would be if I won. http://blog.twosecondmemory.org/2007/10/04/problogger/ There is much said in the name of a theory. So I just want to clarify the different meanings and their uses of the word theory. There are two main meanings: the vernacular and the "science" definition. In the vernacular the general meaning of theory is conjecture; something that is speculated, ... http://blog.twosecondmemory.org/2007/09/05/theory/ printf "! Esc on caps Lock\\n \\ remove Lock = Caps_Lock\\n \\ keysym Caps_Lock = Escape\\n" > $HOME/.Xmodmap http://blog.twosecondmemory.org/2007/07/24/note-to-self-caps-lock-escape/ Well after being hounded by Mr Palmer (well he suggested that I join a couple of times) to join Project Honey Pot I finally joined and donated some MX records and put it on this website. I want to put it on Limes & Lycopene but there is no script ... http://blog.twosecondmemory.org/2007/07/20/project-honey-pot/ Not to be outdone by Mr Palmers post Britney Spears explains Garbage Collection here is Britney's Guide to Semiconductor Physics. But the thing I really love about this site is that if you do a google search for britney spears this site appears ninth. Go Britney! http://blog.twosecondmemory.org/2007/07/20/brittany-spears-and-semiconductor-physics/ This article posted on slashdot stating that IE is down to 70% market share in Europe is very encouraging. Microsoft has been playing silly buggers with respect to web browsers for so long it's nice to finally see some comeuppance. IE has a very poor track record with regards to ... http://blog.twosecondmemory.org/2007/07/20/inernet-explorer/ For the past few months I've been writing a new blogging engine for Limes & Lycopene. It is written in Ruby on Rails and is designed to provide the functionality need for a blogging engine but nothing more. Although i've tried to make it fairly minimal I've put some effort ... http://blog.twosecondmemory.org/2007/07/16/new-blogging-engine/