http://www.blizzo.com Randomness for you since 1976 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:28:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en OK, thats probably not true. It may come as a shock to many of you that the glamorous life of a software engineer/father doesn't leave a lot of time for exercise. I wouldn't call myself "fat", but the Morgan from 8 years ago would have mocked me and ... http://www.blizzo.com/i-can-do-more-push-ups-than-you/ Amy took Diablo to puppy class the other day and found out that he... well, is a she. Oops. Something was mentioned at the Pet Store about the puppy being male, and I never bothered to look that closely. I respect her privacy. A conversation from the movie ... http://www.blizzo.com/gender-bender/ The Ruby on Rails application that I work on uses a plugin called Hobo. We are using a fairly old version of Hobo, because upgrading has been difficult, but the recent security concerns prompted us to take a serious crack at it. It seems that every time I ... http://www.blizzo.com/rails-upgrade-woes/ A coworker of mine has been looking to rent a new place in Colorado.  After a lot of searching they found a house they liked that is managed by Blue Sage Realty.  You can read for yourself, but he was treated horribly by them.  Despite the problems I am having ... http://www.blizzo.com/blue-sage-realty-sucks-apparently/ When Amy was a little girl, she and her family used to go up to these little cabins in the Poudre River Canyon. For a nostalgic adventure we loaded the kids and dogs up into the Subaru for a quick trip. The cabins were nice, but small. They ... http://www.blizzo.com/a-weekend-in-the-mountains/ As I was heading out from my appointment to make an appointment to get a root canal, my phone rang. Amy extended a very innocent sounding invitation to come look at puppies at PetSmart with the kids, they were right around the corner. I headed over and found my kids ... http://www.blizzo.com/family-expansion-dante-diablo/ So over on the Pink Asparagus blog Catherine did this mosaic thingy, where you take the answers to 12 questions, do flickr searches, and build a mosaic out of the results. It sounded like more fun than work, so I took a few minutes to do it. The questions: What is ... http://www.blizzo.com/blizzo-in-12-easy-steps/ One of the ways I prefer to debug is to print things to standard out and watch a console window. The problem is, in Rails, I get a lot of spam to sift through that I usually don't need: SQL statements, routing and rendering info, etc. It makes ... http://www.blizzo.com/ruby-debugging-with-colorized-logging/ I'm a slacker blogger, but I'm OK with that. Life has been very busy lately, and next month is looking to be even busier. I managed to upgrade my Wordpress install and I am so excited to play with it that now you get pictures. Lucky you! The trip was great ... http://www.blizzo.com/disneyland-photos-finally/ One of my favorite web comics, Diesel Sweeties, is about to hit its 8th anniversary and 2000 comic mark around the same time. As a way of celebrating, the creator is releasing the entire archives in 10 separate free PDF volumes (though donations are appreciated). DS is a ... http://www.blizzo.com/diesel-sweeties-a-good-time-to-catch-up/