Archive for August, 2008

Production and Staging with Capistrano

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

For the benefit of googlers, should you happen to be wanting to use the very good Capistrano to deploy your project, and want to switch between staging or pre-production and live or production environments, the best way to handle the switch is using the Multistage facility in capistrano-ext.
It’s basically just ‘gem install capistrano-ext’, then at [...]

And For Stu

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

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The Nuge Approves

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Miami steps it up with a bow murder based episode, featuring several of the key elements for a good show.
1) Absolutely nonsensical murder
The murderer was a high school girl trying to execute her rival with a bow and arrow. Her target was a swimmer and eCelebrity, and the plan was to stand in some bushes [...]

RIP Isaac Hayes

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

Though the BBC article noted he had 12 kids, that’s putting in work. Below is one of my favourite jawns off hot buttered soul, which is a helluva album.

Just a Cook

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Two days in a row I’ve nobbled myself with cooking. Firstly, I rubbed my eyes shortly after choping some chillis, effectively pepper spraying myself in the face. This lead to several minutes of stumbling around in raw burning eyepain.
Yesterday, while cooking some rice I reached over the steamer for the briefest moment, but managed to [...]

Salas & Wolfe - PIs

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Despite offering no further hope for my long awaited spin off (see title), the opening blast from CSI Miami did give us this gem on explaining why HoCaine’s hitherto unknown son had the name John Walden as father on his birth certificate: “John Walden was an alias I used while on a special task force [...]

Tuesday, 9pm, Channel 5

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Fred Titmus

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

I saw this fine autobiography in the pound shop, and felt compelled to purchase a copy so visiting Biscuit fans can have the pleasure of saying exactly what I did when I saw it sitting on the shelf.

I can’t say much about the book, except I just read the foreword by the implausibly named Stafford [...]