Tom And Lisa

The Okanagan wine region is on the list. Good for our property value and rental income, bad for crowds…

Quito’s on our list too! When did we turn into trendsetters?

Quoted: Choosing the world’s next big travel destinations is never an easy feat, especially when there’s seemingly so little left of the globe to discover.

Quoted: I’ve been working on a project for a while. The site has been live for a month or so, and seems to be stable. If you visit my site to read the posts, you may have noticed the top section of the left sidebar has been showing a widget from my new site VideoSlush:http://videoslush.com VideoSlush:http://videoslush.com is a trading game for YouTube videos.

Lisa got me this for Christmas - 24 hours of content!

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Didn’t get Guitar Hero from Santa? Play Handbell Hero for the holidays instead

Seahawks have 6 players in the Pro Bowl.

I think this is Trufant’s first selection

Quoted: Caching is a real pain to get right. Actually, the caching part is quite easy with Rails, its the expiry that causes the trouble. All the simple cases are easy! Its when you have a page with various pieces of data, with different expiry conditions that the trouble starts. I’ve written some code to use versioning in my fragment cache that is working

I’m worried about being left with a coffee maker that has no supply of coffee with this type of machine. This one has an optional filter thing so you can use your own coffee, as well as a good range of coffee and tea suppliers.

Quoted: Keurig single cup coffee makers brew gourmet coffee and tea in less than a minute using our patented K-Cup Portion Packs. It’s like having a coffee shop in your home or office.

Quoted: Instead of sitting in cars on the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, commuters could one day cruise in a catamaran between Kirkland and the University of Washington

The Kirkland Weblog is reporting a sighting of Matthew McConaughey in Kirkland this week

Quoted: Real information about the city of Kirkland, WA

Quoted: If you are using the Rails implementation of validates_uniqueness_of in your model to ensure duplicate data doesn’t get into your database, your application is broken. If you don’t use the database to ensure uniqueness with a key, then your app will fail at some point in the future. Probably just when you start getting some decent traffic and would

Recipes in Ruby - I like it!

griddle = Griddle.new
griddle.preheat! 350.degrees

dry = Bowl.new
dry << Sifter | Flour.new(9.5.ounces)
dry << Sifter | BakingSoda.new(0.5.teaspoon)
dry << Sifter | BakingPowder.new(1.teaspoon)
dry << Sifter | Salt.new(1.teaspoon, :type => :kosher)
dry << Sifter | Sugar.new(3.tablespoons, :type => :vanilla)
dry.whisk!
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Quoted: Cyclone Daman has swept past Fiji’s second-largest island, veering away from areas which had feared major damage.

Saw one of these in Kirkland on Friday

Quoted: The 120-M.P.H. Electric Car

Adding to my wishlist…

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