Installing Passenger without gcc

I ran into a minor issue today while trying to install Phusion Passenger on a web server I’m setting up; I don’t install development tools on my web servers. I have a whole mess of reasons for why I do this, the primary being that it makes keeping several different servers (ie, production and development) in [...]

Go-go-gadget bike

19th & South to Falls Bridge and back. Just over 12 miles, just under 1 hour. Not bad.

Breaking up is hard to do

I’ve decided I’m sick of sending e-mails from dirtymatt@gmail.com. Over the weekend I migrated all of my old e-mail to matt@mattstocum.com (some jerk already owns stocum.com). My old addresses still work, they just forward to matt@mattstocum.com. That’s all.

I am here

RSS Update

Okay, doing a bit of house-keeping on the ol’ blag. For those of you who read my blag, but aren’t interested in the various nerdy things I talk about, I have a new feed that is just stuff about me. I’m going to get it in the lil’ RSS thing at the top at some [...]

Oh goodness look at my wrist

What’s new? Tina finally had her baby, girl you gotta get back to drinking. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is great, total man-crush on NPH. Beril has a show at Johhny Brenda’s tomorrow, I’m going, you should too.
On the nerd front, I finally got the latest CVS of mpeg4ip patched with all of HandBrake’s improvements. Working on fleshing [...]

What I did with my weekend

Thursday: drive to Toronto.  It takes forever, traffic, border guards, they all suck. Roll in a bit before midnight. Saw Nicole briefly before passing out on her futon.
Friday: Nancy and I walked around Toronto. Saw quite a bit, hung out down by the beaches, got a nice sunburn.
Friday night: Went to dinner on some street [...]

The Doctor Donna

The season 4 finale of Doctor Who was really really really good.  It made me want to cry.  It’s a shame the season took 8 freaking episodes before it got going.  Here’s hoping for next season…in a freaking year.