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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!

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]