@Google - RE: A new approach to China

In a recent Google blog post, Google SVP David Drummond claims that, due to recent IP theft, privacy violations of user accounts, and frequent hack attempts against Google from China, especially targeted at human rights activists gmail accounts, that Google will re-assess its position on operating in China.

I’m calling Google out right here, right now: don’t talk, act. Let’s see if they’ve got the stones to play “chicken” with the world’s largest batch of consumers.

Why the Senate Health Care Bill Should NOT Become Law

As a non-partisan, independent voter, I’m seriously concerned with the state of Healthcare in the United States. Unfortunately, the bills before the House and Senate (which, of the date of this writing, the House has passed, and the Senate will vote on its version early the morning of Christmas Eve, reports CNN), fail to address the real causes of high healthcare costs: supply, demand, and litigation. Furthermore it strips Americans of basic rights, like the right to freedom of commerce, artificially subsidizes an entire industry, and further increases the power of the federal government over our lives.

Useful Unit Testing Methods for Rails

How many times have you written tests for validations and found yourself repeating the same stuff over and over?

1 my_unit = Unit.make # I use Machinist
2 temp = my_unit.required_var
3 my_unit.required_var = nil
4 assert !my_unit.valid?
5 my_unit.required_var = temp
6 assert my_unit.valid?

I got pretty sick of doing that, so here’s another way to do the same thing MUCH easier and shorter.

That's funny

I laughed when I saw/did this. Though I’m definitely not hatin’ on Zend Framework, check out the screenshot and the query string in the url :)

Setting up ChromeOS on VMWare Player

I recently read, through Lifehacker that there is a VMWare Disk Image of Google ChromeOS built from source available for download via The Pirate Bay. Unfortunately, setting it up with VMWare Player requires some very mild hacking. This is how I got it running on my Windows 7 machine.

New Blog

So after doing some further price comparisons, I’ve moved my blog (yet again) to Rackspace Cloud Servers