sublimeguile things I find interesting

links for 2007-12-30

wrapping up 2007 (28 December 2007, Interconnected)
(tags: article internet interesting)

evhead: Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea
(tags: business development ideas software startup)

Fimoculous.com - misc - Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading
(tags: blogs bestof)

Ctrl-Shift-B: Interactive Application Architecture Patterns
(tags: software design)

Pixels and Politics: Rails SQL Optimization
(tags: database rails performance)

n+1: Interesting article […]

Wordpress & nginx, sitting in a tree

Gee, I wonder why my subscriber count was way down this week? Guess who didn’t configure nginx right when I capistrano’ed everything.

That’s right. Me.

In case you are looking for the rules in the future, here’s my vhost for the sublimeguile server. Originally, I had just made the 404 page redirect to index.php […]

Theater: Au Revoir Parapluie

Been under the weather this week so I haven’t been feeling chatty enough to write stuff for the blog, but last night Robin & I went to go see Au Revoir Parapluie over at BAM. It’s a sort of acrobat, dance, mime, circus thing. Pretty funny too. I don’t know if it […]

links for 2007-12-04

Loq•kit - Modular Interchangeable Adaptable Reusable House Parts
Build a house using snap together parts — somewhere between legos and office cubicles, you can rebuild your house every year for spring cleaning!
(tags: architecture design prefab)

One Little Nuke Plant for Every 25,000 People?
How about a community sized nuclear power plant that you buy in the ground which […]

Sustainability

Many years ago I spend a few months of my travels working at the Aravind Eye Hospitals in Madurai India. It was, by the number of cataract operations it did a year, one of the largest hospitals in the world, doing something like 150,000 operations a year. (I remember my mother saying that […]