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jim 00:33 Movie over time for sleeeeeep.
tinypliny 00:16 Aarrrgh. Home remedies without basis
tinypliny 00:16 because it doesn't
tinypliny 00:15 Unless they mean it increases the white cells - which makes no sense
tinypliny 00:15 I mean mucus is like white cells and infection jumbled together - the immune reaction to an ongoing infection - how does milk increase this?
tinypliny 00:14 I don't see how milk is a mucus-inducing food
tinypliny 23:44 That local sneaky bloke must have such a workload if he or she is real - which I suspect they are not.
tinypliny 23:43 for just about everything.
tinypliny 23:43 I was looking for best pizza places and I was SO annoyed looked at that generic paragraph with "Our local sneaky blah blah"
tinypliny 23:42 that website is SUCH a colossal letdown!

Jim's Journal from 11/2007

11/02/07 23:52 - 43ºF - ID#41951Category: rubyRuby Conf 2007

Matz's Town Hall Meeting
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Agenda

e:James

Downtown Charlotte
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450 Programmers: 446 Male, 4 Women
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WTF vs Clarity, Integrity, Proportion
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11/03/07 23:13 - 48ºF - ID#41967Category: rubyRuby Conf 2007 Keynote

Matz

Getting rid of Matz (MRI at least)
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Ryan Davis
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Koichi

Chad Fowler
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David Allen Black
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11/04/07 19:11 - 44ºF - ID#41979Category: rubySuper Happy Weekend

We're on our way back home from my Programming Conference, and it was so awesome, I'm just blown away by all the smart people. The sessions were so good, and I'm sad I had to miss out on some of the ones that I couldn't make because of choosing other talks. I won't bore with the details (I do that enough already), but I can't wait for next year!

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11/05/07 14:17 - 46ºF - ID#41986Category: workBack to the working world...

God damn do I have a lot to do this week. All my wonderful plans for trying out some of the new tools and techniques I learned over the weekend have suddenly been crushed by an onslaught of overdue work. Overall it really sucks that I've gotten involved in a ton of small websites, it really kills me to have to do tech support for them - death by a thousand underpaid cuts. Only big projects, with actual budgets and contracts from now on. I swear.

I am looking forward to going to Roswell tomorrow, I finally have an idea of how to create a test harness for my order management system so that I can make changes without causing regression and breakage. It's been sucky to work without the testing tools that I've grown so dependent on. Testing is so awesome, such a confident way to move forward. You end up testing everything anyway, so to do it in an organized fashion actually takes less time then manually verifying that nothing breaks after each change.

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11/06/07 08:21 - 39ºF - ID#41996Category: workEarly to Work

OK, I got to work at like 7am today, and no one is around but luckily nothing was locked up. Weird.

Catching up on email and the like right now, thinking of going and grabbing a coffee...

Spooky spooky, hope someone else shows up sooon.

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11/06/07 10:07 - 39ºF - ID#42002Category: programmingMicrosoft Ruby .NET

Microsoft is creating a Ruby implementation for .NET -- I'm sure they will call it something ridiculous like Microsoft Ruby .NET Enterprise Extended Edition 2008. And charge a kajillion dollars for it. Awesome. Or that other thing, not awesome.

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