Hello everyone… I’ve got a larger article coming in the next few days. It’s on setting up a Rails development environment in Windows. I’ve never really done a large post and am taking my time to get it right. I’m hoping it will help the community.
So check back soon and keep an eye for that!
So this is my experiment. I will add this post to Digg to see if it will have any effect on users to get not only ‘dugg’ but to see if someone actually will go and find a better video than what I have already seen.
I just watched this video of Merlin Mann, which I assume is from SXSW 2008. It would be fantastic to get a better copy with maybe less of the audience noise that’s keeping you from actually hearing the presentation. So lemmings… go forth and find me a better video! Um.. I mean please. Help me :-)
UPDATE: Apparently not! :-( At least for this article. It gained absolutely no diggs or any sort of traffic. O, well. So much for that experiment.
This will be a new series that I run where I post interesting or odd headlines I find.
For this one… I really couldn’t care less about the article. It’s something we all knew was going to happen, but Engadget created this headline ever so gracefully.
“Apple posts $1.58B profit, buys monocle, top hat”
In an recent interview, some interesting facts were made known about Henry Winkler… the hippest cat to ever roll the streets of Milwaukee.
I found this quote really moving:
“I start by saying I am a husband, a father, we have two dogs, I am an actor, a producer, a director and I write children’s books - and I’m in the bottom 3% in America academically. I say to children, ‘You do not know what you can achieve until you put one foot in front of another and try.”
To put this in context, Henry Winkler was diagnosed with dyslexia late in life. Instead of bringing him down… it actually raised him up. It gave a reassurance that he really wasn’t stupid and made him realize that all of his accomplishments were all the more sweeter.
If this guy can do it…. you know the rest.
The ‘guy’ in this story will be played by Alan Corey. The story is about him so I figured he was the logical choice.
So the story goes like this, young out of college male with an authority problem.. o yeah he doesn’t get laid either. That’s really most of us right? Anyway he gets this idea that he wants to become a millionaire and that will obviously help him with his other problems. And so the craziness begins with his ‘out of the box’ thinking of ways to save cash.
He was basically living the dream of never leaving ‘college life’ and he actually made it work. Check out the article out over at the Geezeo blog. It’s a good read and he actually quite funny. I love the fact that he calls a playstation his first investment in saving money. There is good reasoning behind it though!
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