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First eBay Sale

over 5 years ago by Lyle on Lovable Lyle.
I’ve just completed my first sale on eBay, and it went really well. I sold my old Palm Zire 31 handheld, which I replaced with a Palm T|X last...

Research and Writing Tools for the Mac

over 5 years ago by Lyle on Lovable Lyle.
I’ve had my new MacBook for about a month and a half now and have been evaluating a lot of different tools to help me organize my research and writing...

Leave the Driving to Us

over 5 years ago by Lyle on Lovable Lyle.
I just visited Progressive’s Drive Insurance web site to try to get auto insurance quotes. I can enter my zip code, and the fact that I’m looking...

BarCamp Birmingham

over 5 years ago by Lyle on Lovable Lyle.
I’ve just learned of a Birmingham BarCamp that’s being organized for August 25-26, and I’m thinking about attending. To be honest,...

Christmas Comes Early

over 5 years ago by Lyle on Lovable Lyle.
The combination of a bonus at work, plus a recent kernel panic on my aging TiBook, are the signs I was looking for that it’s time to upgrade to one...

A Longish Post about Package Names and Versioning

over 5 years ago by Lyle on Lovable Lyle.
So, I’ve created a bit of a mess with regards to the naming of different versions of FXRuby and am trying to decide how best to solve that problem...

FXRuby 1.6 Released

over 5 years ago by Lyle on Lovable Lyle.
Well, I just made the first official release of FXRuby 1.6. Read the announcement here and get it here. FXRuby...

On Ruby’s Performance

over 5 years ago by Lyle on Lovable Lyle.
Comments in a recent interview of Zed Shaw have sparked a new round of discussion concerning Ruby’s performance (see the thread beginning here). Unlike...

Automating PowerPoint with Ruby

over 5 years ago by Lyle on Lovable Lyle.
I knew that Ruby had some support for Windows OLE Automation—I vaguely remembered skimming over that part in Programming Ruby, once upon a time—...

Hussein’s “Kids in the Hall” Reference

over 5 years ago by Lyle on Lovable Lyle.
I just went to CNN.com and this caught my eye:Hussein listened silently to the witness. But he lost his temper when one of the lawyers described Kurdish...