Groove Salad: A nicely chilled plate of ambient beats and grooves.
Groove Salad: A nicely chilled plate of ambient beats and grooves.
“ Common sense tells you if there’s 700 billion to bailout the crooks on Wall Street, surely there’s enough to guarantee healthcare to every man woman and child in the United States.
Daily Kos: Bailout protests spread, thousands swarm across Golden Gate Bridge demanding healthcare
Cremation
Sad news from the pixtress this week
After three years of illness, Denise died and was cremated in a fierce fire under a blue sky, ghee poured over her body and consumed by the bright orange flames. Seeing her body disappear like that, it seems strange that it is often so easy to forget impermance, as if we did not all have that fundimental reality in common: we all die. Denise encountering her own death with such thorough clear-sightedness, graceful diligence and humorful fearlessness was a generous and rich example of how to fully engage with that truth of impermance.
She said: ” If I would recommend anything, it would be, ‘Take death to heart’… Let it pierce you. If you can open and surrender to your own mortality and vulnerability, you will discover a fundamental, unconditional source of strength and confidence.”
[for more from Denise, please go to http://www.elephantjournal.com/2008/09/denise-thornton-the-dharma-of-cancer/]
See the original post.
“ I guess what I mean to say is just because SOAP is a disaster, doesn’t somehow make REST the answer. Simpler is better, and REST is generally simpler than SOAP. But there is nothing wrong with a plain old POST as an RPC call. If its easy to make all your calls conform to the RESTful verb architecture, then that’s good, I guess. But if not, then just use a POST as an RPC call, keep it as simple as possible and be done with it. And don’t spend another minute worrying about being RESTful or not.
Damien Katz: REST, I just don’t get it
[RIP] Guy Decoux
The ruby community lost one of it’s founding members recently. We’re sad to have lost Guy Decoux. Here is the announcement from ruby-talk.
Hello,
I’m sad to announce you Guy Decoux’s death in the beginning of the month
of July 20008. He was 53 years old. He died accidentally, intoxicated by
the smokes of the fire that took place during the night in his flat in
Louveciennes (near Paris).
Guy Decoux was network and system admin at the Plant Genomics
Research Unit of INRA (Agricultural Research labs, where he worked
since 1982) in Moulon’s Farm (Moulon’s plateau [1], in the south west
of Paris).
He was an Internet pioneer. For example, he worked on Oraplex,
one of the first Oracle to web gateways. He deployed the first
website that gave access to an ACeDB [2] system by the end of 1993.
He had worked on bioinformatic free software, like ProticDB [3], a
plant proteomic database.
He was part of the generation of developers who switched from Perl
to Ruby in the 90s. While his mastering of Perl was already great,
his knowledge about Ruby was so deep and impressive that a lot of Rubyists
would have been very happy to have the same one. Guy contributed to
Dave Thomas’ book, “Programming Ruby”. Of course he polled for the
comp.lang.ruby and fr.comp.lang.ruby newsgroups creation.
He was maintaining some libraries like PL/Ruby [4] a procedural language
for PostgreSQL, bdb/bdb1 [5] bindings for Berkeley DB, bz2 [6]
bindings the libbzip2 compression library and MMap [7] class,
a class for Memory-mapped files.
To my knowledge, he was the only french person to have commits right
to Ruby MRI source code. I don’t know if he was officially member
of the Ruby Core Team (I don’t know if there is an official Ruby Core
Team list).
I’m not sure ‘ts’ (what does ‘ts’ mean in his electronic address?)
had ever been to RubyConf nor any Ruby conference. Well I don’t
know if there is a french Rubyist who ever meet him. Was he mysterious
or secret ? Maybe he was just reserved. His colleagues described
Guy as reserved, kind, available, professional and technically
very competent. His messages on Ruby-Core or Ruby-Talk, sometimes
with a bit of humor, show all that.
This is a loss for Ruby Community.
In the name of french association RubyFrance, I present my condolences
to Guy Decoux’s family, his friends and his collegues.
— Jean-François.
News URL :
http://www.rubyfrance.org/articles/2008/09/25/disparition-de-guy-decoux
[1] http://moulon.inra.fr
This explains the ‘moulon’ server name in the prompt shell
that can be found in Guy’s messages on the Internet.
[2] ACeDB is a genomic OO and relational database system :
http://wwww.acedb.org
[3] ProcticDB : http://moulon.inra.fr/%7Ebioinfo/PROTICdb
[4] PL/Ruby : http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/pl-ruby
[5] bdb & bdb1 : http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/bdb
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/bdb1
[6] bz2 : http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/bz2
[7] MMap : http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/mmap
And a very touching image done by _why
We’ll miss you Guy.
“ This comes on the heals of the revelation that while McCain condemned golden parachutes given to executives who run companies into the ground, it was discovered that one of his top economic advisers, Carly Fiorina, received a $21.4 million severance package (a.k.a. “golden parachute”) when she was dismissed by Hewlett Packard in 2005 after laying off thousands of people and taking the company down the road to insolvency.
McCain falling Like the Market
“ The lobbying firm founded and co-owned by Rick Davis, the campaign manager for Sen. John McCain’s White House bid, received payments from Freddie Mac in recent months, despite assertions by Davis earlier this week that the firm’s work for the mortgage giant had ended three years ago.
McCain Aide’s Firm Was Paid Recently - washingtonpost.com
“ It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. “We just wanted to choose a really large number.
Bad News For The Bailout - Forbes.com
“ The reporter asked who is the biggest wheel-sucker, Leipheimer or Cadel Evans?
VeloNews | Contador hesitant to ride with Armstrong | The Journal of Competitive Cycling.