Monthly Archives: March 2008

Ugh, more snow.

By John | Published: March 23, 2008
This is what I woke to this morning. A fresh coat of snow.  Ugh.  Its around this time that Minnesotans start to really hate that beautiful white power from hell.  I mean, I’ll take a foot of snow over below zero temps any day, but really, it is almost April… throw us a bone Mother Nature!
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Got a new monitor

By John | Published: March 20, 2008
Yup, brand new 24 inch Samsung. I’m always amazed what an extra 4 inches will do for your screen real estate. I love it.
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Slicehost problems with Gem *FIXED*

By John | Published: March 17, 2008
Today I set up 470.johnyerhot.com and set up a Rails app I worked on to run there, but I needed to install the Pdf-writer Gem for proper functionality. Low and behold when I tried sudo gem install pdf-writer I was greeted with nothing, just Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org and that was it. After searching and [...]
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Drupal | Front Page Module + Nice Menus = Headache

By John | Published: March 3, 2008
I’ve spend all morning trying to get this to work.  I am using nice menus and the frontpage modules in Drupal for a project at work and I could not for the life of me get the nice menu to work on the newly created frontpage I set up using “full” type of front page. After [...]
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