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Monthly Archives: July 2007

Public Airwaves for the Public Good

http://civic.moveon.org/airwaves/
Please check this out people. This is huge; if Google or someone else opens up the new wireless spectrum, we will see another technology revolution.
Here is part of the letter I sent when signing the petition.

Thank you for your time and kind consideration. I am the CTO of a information services firm (getthejob.com) [...]

Ok, got the MacBook , now I want to learn Ruby. What first?

I am going to try Locomotive. In the spirit of WAMP/MAMP, it is a full Ruby on Rails stack for OS X. Since I am not terribly interested in doing everything manually (yet), I figure this is my easiest way in.

Took the plunge… in the form of a MacBook Pro

So far, I love it.I did a whole “unboxing” ceremony. I’ll upload pics for that soon.
I have already been able to install a PHP/MySql Stack (MAMP) and Drupal.
Soon, I’ll be on to Ruby.