Archive for December, 2006

Saw this in a MacDonald’s at a local shopping mall: If you can look past the fuzziness of the photo, it’s actually someone using a HP laptop with an Apple sticker. Now, if only I can get a HP sticker for my MacBook Pro…

Yup, it’s that fast and simple, using Ferret, a Ruby port of Lucene (the de facto full text search engine written in Java) and the acts_as_ferret plugin, I added “Did you mean this?” functionality to a small Rails application (non-perma link) today rather quickly and painlessly. Adding full text search funtionality to your Rails applications [...]

How to setup your Trash/Sent/Drafts folders for IMAP on Mail.app. “Select mailbox, Mailbox -> Use this mailbox for…, Sent”. (OK I misspelled ‘trash’ in the post title – see trackback below.)

All I got for my birthday was this t-shirt: In case the image doesn’t load at some point or is too small, here’s what it says: Two hours of broadband to ftp the Linux Package, 15 cents. CDs to burn the files, $1.00. The knowledge that nothing on your computer is from Microsoft, PRICELESS. There [...]