I havn't written in awhile, so I thought I would post that I am alive and that I enjoyed Thanksgiving.¬? I am also working on the comics database.¬? Basically the more I mess with Rails, the more I like it, so it is taking my time right now.¬? I also am becoming less thrilled with the WordPress web page editor, so I am looking for suggestions on good desktop applications that handle blogging on a Mac.¬? Feel free to comment those suggestions, or don't.
It is 36 degrees with a wind chill of 24 and we are in a severe thunderstorm warning with thunder and lightning all around. Gotta love November in Iowa.
UPDATE: It did hail here, now it won't melt because it is too close to freezing.¬? Then there is this awesome picture of severe weather in Iowa.
Since Rails is what the people asked for, Rails is what the people are gonna get. I am starting work on the comic database and so the first step is to get Rails up and going on my local machine so I can do development easily. I have started by using Locomotive, a very nice program that allows you to run a Rails server without configuring the system. As I get further into the program, I think having the system actually configured to do Rails automatically is going to work better, so that is the big step for tonight. After that, development and learning will commence.
One of the agreements Rebekah and I made about some of the wedding gifts was to each get a better present for ourselves. Rebekah chose a Kitchenaid mixer and I chose a new 80 GB iPod. It has been about 4 years since I got my first iPod, so I have had a lot of fun tinkering with the new features, such as the photos and videos. I also started messing with having my calendar on the iPod so I can have that with me as well with my only qualm being that the iPod does not show the location field when viewing an entry. Last night I was checking on availability for an appointment, I must have accidentally hit play for music as I put the iPod away because when I checked the iPod this morning, it was playing still with the battery almost dead. I was quite impressed that it had gotten 15 hours of constant music playback, so I decided to drain the battery and have kept listening all morning. I am now at 17 hours straight and the iPod keeps trucking. Color me impressed when compared to the old 8 hrs I got on my original iPod.