Blame Scalability…
The Ex Factor - O’Reilly ONLamp Blog

How did he get all those thoughts in my head organized coherently?
What he said.

James Burke - one of the coolest history gurus out there - has published a few of his famous BBC Connections episodes online.

Connections

Tops on my playlist for now:
Under the Influence of Giants

Great alt-pop, er — whatever the genre is.

Very interesting concept. I’m wondering what the reaction will be from other Rails developers and the core team. I’m excited to try it out on my next project…
Unspace - HAML: HTML Abstraction Markup Language

IT people “twice as likely” to wear heavy metal t-shirt as other people

So I’ve had my MythTV humming along real well for the last 2+ months now. Dual PVR-150s, 1/2 Gig of RAM with a meager 60Gig HDD. It has really passed the wife test with flying colors. I have the audio folders remote CIFS (samba) mounted from my NAS box back in the office. I can stream audio files all day long with no problem, but when it came to video I just didn’t have the bandwidth (it seems) to get anywhere. Mplayer was studdering trying to play back the video file. I tried tweaking my WRT54Gs that help the network together, but I my WiFi signal was already around 80-90%. No help there. I dig around on the Knoppmyth wiki until I found an article about switching over to Xine (in this case for DVD iso - pretty slick if you ask me) I swicthed the default video commandline option to:
<code>
xine -pfhq –no-splash %s
</code>

For some reason xine does a better job of buffering the video signal across as slower network mounted drive. Props to Xine on MythTV

Kevin Barnes has a great article about the philosophical differences in modern day languages. Good read.

Code Craft - Freedom languages - JournalHome.com

Use Streamlined with Rails!
It takes the whole concept of views and cranks it up a notch.
If you don’t trust me (and why would you…) then watch the screencast.