Archive for November, 2005

TextBooks!

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

Back when I was actually in school, I think I hated textbooks. Studying in general, actually. Not that I didn’t study ( “B” average, baby! ), but I don’t recall fond memories of the time I spent reading my various textbooks. Now, I find myself thinking that if I just had more free time I […]

Turkey Day

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

We had folks over today — Jim, and Paul, and John, and Barbara. We were suppose to all go over to Pete and Carolyn’s, but they cancelled when they thought that nobody was going to come over. Near as I can tell we’ve done Thanksgiving with Pete and Carolyn, and Jim, and Loretta and I […]

Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

I’m trying to do stuff with Ruby. I should really learn this Ruby on Rails stuff. Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials

The latest news on my broken leg

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

I saw my doctor on Tuesday; he says again that my leg is healing quite nicely and told me to stop using the crutches, buy a cane and use that ( although I’ll likely stop using it because I don’t need it in two or three weeks ), and start physical therapy. Here are my […]

Downloading a Google video

Saturday, November 5th, 2005

This page has a little php script which extracts the url of the file which Google downloads to play; with this you can get a .flv file ( huh? ) instead of just watching it online.

The leg continues to recover

Saturday, November 5th, 2005

It’s been nine weeks since I broke my leg, and I’m doing pretty well. I see my doctor again in about a week, and I hope he’ll start me on physical therapy and walking without the crutches, and I really hope he’ll clear me to drive because being chauffeured around sucks.