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Let’s get this straight.  If anyone wants to give us money, we’ll gladly take it.  We’d be even happier if it was money for the sale of Mini-Compressor, but we’re not too picky.

We currently accept payment through all major credit cards as well as Paypal, though an account is not required.   We’ve toyed with alternative ideas.  And by alternative, we really mean alternative.  Like, big fat novelty cheques:

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I’ve been developing the Saturday MP website, which was developed using Ruby on Rails, on Windows using Rad Rails.  Unfortunately developing on Ruby on Rails on Windows has a couple drawbacks:

1. It’s hard to install Ruby and/or Rails on Windows.  It’s getting easier with the Ruby Installer but still a pain.
2. The production environment is Linux which can make it hard to debug a problem that only appears in one environment

I’ve started migrating my development envrionment to a MacBook Pro which is Linux based and then I can try TextMate which I hear so much about.  I hear a lot about TextMate.  Like I mean a lot.  Hopefully it will live up to my expectations and also cure cancer.

I was working on some new servers that were soon going to be production servers.  While working on them I noticed that they didn’t have static IP addresses.  Being the good looking proactive guy that I am I sent a quick e-mail to the IT department offering to change the servers to static IPs myself since I was already working on them.  Once I got the OK I changed all the servers to static IPs.   The problem was I changed the servers to the static version of the IP address DHCP had given them.  For example, if the server had been given a DHCP address of 192.168.25.75 I set the static IP to the same thing.

“W” was the letter of the week in Darling Daughter’s class a few weeks ago.  You know what I wished?  That Mini-Compressor would compress the wascally weeds in our Behemoth Garden.  Right-click on behemoth weeds and voila… smaller weed no long takes over space where the strawberries are and I can dig it out easier.  Nice, right?

Another adventure out of the basement - yay!  It’s that time of year in the Chamming garden… yup… planting time.

First comes the planning process that I love best.  I carefully draw a not-to-scale “map” of the garden on the back for scrap paper.  It’s usually entitled “My Vegetable Garden”.  Chris laughs that it reminds him of Microsoft’s “My” products, like “My Computer” and “My Favourites”.  Anyway, this year on the hit list are zucchinis, tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers beets, beans, peas, lettuce, herbs, onions and sunflowers.