Paul Grunt

I finally took the plunge and signed up for a flickr Pro account today. I don’t know why I put off purchasing a Pro account for so long since I know I’ve needed it. I’ll be uploading a ton of photos now so visit often and get a flickr account of your own if you don’t already have one.

I’m spending the evening, oops it’s morning now, listening to Global Underground’s Synchronised. Buy it. You’ll like it. Or buy it for a friend. Friends like gifts too. :)

I bought my second macally Clear Protective Overlay today to shield my 80GB iPod’s delicate surface from the abuse in takes whilst penetrating my pocket as well as the many various surface landings it encounters. I’ve used other cases and protective agents but I just hate the added bulk that comes along with using them since the iPod’s form factor is perfect the way it is and I don’t want to mess with perfection… Of course, I’d prefer to be able to use my iPod without any protection since their’s so much more digital feedback involved in the whole experience. ahem. I recommend this overlay to anyone with a Big iPod. Milage may very.

I’m planning on porting my site over to Mephisto which runs on Rails. I’ll be using my current mediatemple (gs), gridserver, for hosting of course and I found a great tutorial for integrating mediatemple (gs) hosting, using their ruby containers, with Mephisto over at Softamade as well as a great tutorial on Running Mephisto on OSX.

So I bought my first RoR book, Agile Web Development with Rails. I’m just starting to dig into it. All my RoR resources have mentioned to me that I should get this book so I’m following there guidance. There is even a PDF version of the book available for those who prefer that option.

Yup! It’s about that time. Time to move to Ruby on Rails. WordPress and PHP have been fun, but there are many reasons to move to Ruby for me right now… I can think of at least one RAILS! dur! Get with the times. Move to RoR! Or at least look into it. I’m going to be posting a few resources for RoR noobs like me.

My latest project is for Project Integrators. I’m doing a complete redesign of the company website that will be standards driven. I look forward to delivering this project very soon.

Update: Project-Integrators is live.

Update: New border images uploaded. Site borders look much smoother now. :)

I think the Quiet Songs album by Aisha Duo is a great album to start your day with while sipping a coffee outside as the fog lifts from your mind. Quiet Songs is enjoyable any time for that matter. Try it. You’ll like it. ;)

A friend of mine introduced me to Esquivel some years ago, aprox 1996. If you don’t know of Juan Garcia Esquivel and his spaceage-pop you should try it. You’ll like it.