He’s Just Had Coffee

So… the buzz finally got to me and I figured that I’d better wrap my head around Ruby On Rails (thanks to bj and David for subtly exerted pressure and encouragement). Like just about everyone else in the (coding, blog-reading) world, the killing blow for me was the video. http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/HowtoInstallOnOSXTiger http://www.entropy.ch/software/MacOSx/mysql/ http://cocoamysql.sourceforge.net/ http://macromates.com/ Technorati Tags: coding

… it occurred to me that while I love the way Ken Wilber writes, if I was editing his work I would completely ban his practice of putting “yes?” at the ends of sentences. For example, “Well, it appears that the night view has since prevailed, yes?” (xi) Drives me nuts. The weird thing is, I’ve never […]

So, Anthony and I went to see Spielberg’s “War Of The Worlds” last night. It’s really odd. The film for me has a conflict at its core that it derives from its dual ancestry: one the one side, Wells’ novel and his fascination with the stuff of science and and on the other, the Hollywood […]

In this comment from GenSit by Matthew Dallman, the arch-patriarch of integral music, appeals to a theatrical/performance art metaphor for blogging. My jaw dropped. It’s one of those beautiful insights that is unthinkable before you hear it and so obvious afterwards that you’re embarrassed to say it because everyone else must have already worked it […]

Just executed the latest step of our Meetup’s exit plan. Since Meetup decided to start charging for a service that, we feel, hasn’t helped us all that much we’ve decided to move the group off the site. Accordingly, I bought http://www.sydneyintegral.org and started a Yahoo group and yesterday I methodically emailed every single member (all […]