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This is purely a plea for aid, and nothing more. I have Ruby 1.8.2, Rails 0.13.1, and MySQL 4.14 running under Mac OS X 10.4. I have a simple Rails application that works fine, except that most of the time when I try to perform an operation that uses a database transaction, WEBrick hangs. The [...]

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I’m working on a proof of concept Rails project. It’s a relatively simple application that will be a lot more complex down the road, and I need to decide whether it makes sense to write it (and perhaps subsequent applications that are related) in Ruby on Rails, or whether I should write them with the [...]

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Go read the letter from Captain Ian Fishback (82nd Airborne) to Senator John McCain urging the government to clarify its position with regard to how detainees in US custody should be treated. Here’s how it starts:

I am a graduate of West Point currently serving as a Captain in the U.S. Army Infantry. I [...]

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NOAA has released aerial photos of the areas damaged by Hurricane Rita. I’ve been busy cutting out specific locations that are of interest to me, which you can see in my Hurricane Rita Flickr Set. Unfortuantely, they managed to to take pictures of my parents’ house or my sister’s house. It can be a bit [...]

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Ted Leung says says what he really wants instead of Memeorandum is a site that surveys sites he’s interested in rather than weblogs in general for interesting stories. Sounds like a perfect service for Bloglines to me.

I’m finding Memeorandum pretty useful as a way to get an idea of what everybody is talking about at [...]

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I wouldn’t link to this story, but it seems to me that many people have taken the rumors of mayhem at th Superdome and Convention Center in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to be fact. It’s not their fault, either, because the rumors have been repeated thousands of times in print, on television, and [...]

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I don’t know if any readers can help with this, but the radio station I keep linking to in Orange, TX is looking for someone with extra streaming media capacity help them get back online so that they can start broadcasting information for evacuees. Here’s the specific request:

Things seem to be going really [...]

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As you can see from the updates at the KOGT web site, my home town of Orange, Texas is in bad shape. Officials are saying that it will be at least two weeks before the power is back on and my family remains evacuated. My parents have heard that their house has two trees on [...]

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In running down the local media for Rita yesterday, I forgot about radio stations. Orange station KOGT has posted the first update from the town that I’ve seen:

Glad to be on the other side! I’ve never been afraid of weather until last night. The severe wind and rain started around 1am [...]

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Here’s a quick list of media outlets that will be covering hurricane Rita:

The Beaumont Enterprise Port Arthur News The Orange Leader Lake Charles American Press (blog) KFDM (Beaumont CBS affiliate) KBTV (Beaumont NBC affiliate) KPLC (Lake Charles/Lafayette NBC affiliate) Houston Chronicle (staff blog, reader blog)

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