And speaking of concerts... May 27, 2008

It looks like I've got an extra ticket for the Rush concert at the Tweeter Center on Sunday, June 15, at 7:30 PM. This is a reserved open-air seat.

I think the ticket was something like $45, but I'll have to check it once I get home. Any takers...

Jim's Big Ego in Waltham! May 27, 2008

Friday, June 6, at 7:30 PM at the Oasis Coffeehouse (which is at the First Presbyterian Church, just off Moody Street). $12 apiece. Who's in?

(Jim's Big Ego, for those who haven't already heard me yammer on and on about them, is one of my favorite...

Netcraft confirms it: Mongrel is dying May 13, 2008

Hey Dreamhost customers: looks like you now have a reasonable option for deploying Rails apps!

(Found via the official Phusion blog.  Congrats to the Phusion boys, this is really great news.)

Minutes from the Intercon Con Com meeting, May 10, 2008 May 12, 2008

Concom Minutes
10 May 2008

• Hotel Liason
  • Check arrived
    
• Bid Chair
  • Not here, sent a report:
  • "One game added, More games needed, Woot"
  • Talk about results of Bidcom Open Meeting
    • Went through all text shown to bidders and cleaned it up for accuracy...

A Moving Post May 7, 2008

So, this now seems settled enough for me to officially announce it: this June, Viktoriya and I will be moving to lovely* Fitchburg, Massachusetts!

We're going to be renting a condo in Bridle Cross Estates, a fairly new development on the outskirts...

What do we really mean by GNS? May 7, 2008

This is a continuation of a discussion that started on a friend's LiveJournal, in the comments thread.  For the background, go here.

Over the course of the thread, it became increasingly clear to me that l_the_fangirl and I weren't talking about the...

Music meme May 2, 2008

Stolen from belu.

How many songs total: 5368 How many hours or days of music: 16 days, 20 hours, 57 minutes Most recently played: Charles Douglas - She's An Angel Most played: 3-way tie!  Mark Knopfler - Marbletown, 3 Doors Down - Kryptonite, They...

New natbudin.com Apr 30, 2008

For a long time now, if you went to my "home page", natbudin.com, you would be confronted with a page that looked something like this:

While true, this message is somewhat less than informative. Today I decided it's been up there for damn long...

Ponzi: A Finance App for Your House Apr 23, 2008

There's a few web applications I work on in my spare time.  If you read this blog regularly, you've probably heard about some of them: Journey (an online questionnaire app), or ProCon (a convention registration system), for example.  There's one I...

Addendum to last post Apr 12, 2008

I migrated everything on Sakai over to Phusion Passenger.  It was dead easy. So far, it looks like it's as good as they say.