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Feb 22, 2010
Miscellaneous

John Gruber, Jackass

John Gruber: 12-word review of “A Serious Man”: So much for the Coen brothers never having made a bad movie. Where by “review” Gruber means “140 characters of obnoxious drivel.” (truth be told, I haven’t seen A Serious Man yet, but I couldn’t pa...

Feb 15, 2010
Rails Thinking Sphinx

Solution for undefined method `sphinx_scope'

Running into undefined_method errors with Thinking Sphinx and sphinx scopes? Make sure you define your sphinx_scope after the define_index block, instead of before. Simple, huh? In other words, make sure your ActiveRecord classes look like this...

Feb 15, 2010
Microsoft Mobile

Windows Phone 7 Series Looks Beautiful and Unusable

</param></param></param></embed> The name is terrible. Would Windows 7 Phone have been so bad? Really? The fact that the videographer talking with Gian Wilson from Microsoft can’t pronounce the OS’ name doesn’t bode well for anyone else. Everyone...

Dec 22, 2009
Zoon Politikon

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

From an article in TNR: [John] Kerry remains furious about Tora Bora today. “They declared Osama bin Laden the world’s number-one criminal, and went out boldly proclaiming, ‘Wanted: Dead or Alive’ and talking about the dangers of Al Qaeda,” he to...