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Monthly Archives: October 2008

On the Perils of Email Forwarding

I received a presentation titled SHOTINTHEFANNIEMAE.pdf.ppt recently from a forwarded email. First off, if you INSIST on using all caps, which is OBNOXIOUS, then please SEPARATE your WORDS with WHITESPACE_OR_UNDERSCORES. Or hyphens. Something! Please. Thanks.
All in all, it is a politicized perspective of the Fannie Mae situation and who is to blame. Which [...]

Memcached on Leopard

First, the easy part, installing memcached and libmemcached using MacPorts:
sudo port install memcached libmemcached
Now, for the memcached gem — not quite so easy for me on Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard):
sudo gem install memcached
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
ERROR: Error installing memcached:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

extconf.rb:21: shared library ‘libmemcached’ not [...]

Facts in Short Supply?

I, for one, am hoping for a debate that includes facts — meaning statements that can be verified as true or false. Bill Adair of politifact.com made an interesting observation during a CNN interview:

It is going to be an interesting debate. We have found in trying to check the two vice presidential candidates that [...]