The other day I finally re-opened my favorite web browser and I noticed that some prankster had changed my home page to JoshJonesIsYourNewBicycle.com! I was of course outraged, and since nobody spoke up, I had no choice but to have the entire admin staff TERMINATED! Just a few days later, as the issues mounted, I [...]
I have been to the future. It’s a very well known future, one everybody knows is coming, and yet, it is still, frustratingly, not here. It’s not the future of nano-bots, flying cars, and hamburger toothpaste that some predict. Nor is it the future of sex-bots, self-driving cars, and hamburger frosties that others believe in. [...]
Ha, did you think you’d gotten through those stupid strike-themed posts? Well, apparently you are! The writer’s strike seems to be finally coming to an end, and I don’t know whether to be happy or sad. On the one hand, it means I can finally get back to writing awesome blog posts. On the other [...]
Starting today, every DreamHost PS and DreamHost dedicated server comes equipped with the Mongrel ruby application server. Mongrel is the preferred method of deploying Ruby on Rails applications and is typically more robust than FastCGI-based deployments. Now we’re giving you both options to choose from so you can use the one that works best for [...]
Welcome back to this week’s (and the final) edition of Friday illiterative lists! Two business practices of pretty big-name companies came to my attention this week that I thought were too underhanded/sleazy not to be shared/copied. #1. Sending something via FedEx Express Saver: On Tuesday I had to FedEx some stuff from downtown Los Angeles [...]