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Re: Useful Flash Messages in Rails

Julian — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:06:32 -0000

'user name and password do not MATCH' ?? What are you crazy -- what system recommends that user name and password be the same?

:)

Re: Who Will Tell the People? - New York Times

Julian — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:46:47 -0000

Some other great airports to check out are Madrid, Munich, and even (shudder) Heathrow Terminal 5.

Re: Heroku | YamlDb for Database-Independent Data Dumps

Julian — Sun, 04 May 2008 04:36:09 -0000

Standard note for Windows users -- if you get this message under windows

Mysql::Error: Can't create/write to file 'C:\path\to\Temp\#sql_1e70_0.MYI' (Errcode: 13): SHOW FIELDS FROM ...

It's entirely possible you have a virus scanner like McAfee that is blocking the creation of 'MYI' files.

Solution: add it as an exception under 'On Access Scanner:Properties:All Processes:Detection:Exclusions...' -- you can enable the folder or more robustly all files ending in MYI.

Re: http://www.techwinter.com/2006/06/26/will-spam-destroy-microformat-hcard/

Julian — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 20:08:15 -0000

Glad this has been thought about -- this idea just dawned on me this morning when reviewing the implications of microformats myself. Totally agree that, more broadly, the semantic web means your page fundamentally will be available for machine consumption, for better or worse. How to protect the worse seems to be the biggest issue confronting microformats currently.