So Rails 1.1 is out. I've spent the morning upgrading my development environment (Mac OS X still - the dual boot is coming real soon now) to Rails 1.1, and installed Lighty and the FastCGI bindings for Ruby so I can run a better development environment.

What a royal pain!

Seriously, I don't know how any Unix-like operating system can function without apt - apt is the part of Debian and Ubuntu that sets it years ahead of anything else. Other distributions have similar things, and OS X has DarwinPorts and Fink, but they're not part of the core distribution. Apple is talking about Rails, maybe they will sort out packaging in 10.5 - by then, I'll be on Ubuntu anyway.

The first in a series of consumer reports by Tom - Twaddle's very own investigative reporter.

These are the covers for my books.

What books? Well, I'm pleased to announce that I'll soon be releasing my first book, 'XHTML and CSS: How to be happier doing what you love' - that's the sunflower. It'll be a square book.

The other? Well, that's for that novella (you can have a landscape novella - just watch me) I keep putting down and picking up. I'm going to pick it up and finish it, just as soon as the techie book is done. I'll have plenty of time next week to work on them both, too.

I like this image. It reminds me at times that I don't have to keep on doing what I've been doing. I don't have to keep on feeling bad about the same people, or indeed any people - I can go wherever I want to go, and see whatever I want to see.

It's interesting how all too often I forget that, and get bogged down with feelings of being trapped and isolated.

I got bored with having this website being all the same colours as CNUK labs.

(Attribution: left @ sunset by blamfoto)