Archive for August, 2008

New Baaba Maal Live Acoustic Album

Definitely a posting for the random category, but having waited 7 years for a new album since his excellent album Missing You, I figured the release of Baaba Maal’s new album was worth blogging about. He’s an absolutely amazing live performer. Do yourself a favor and check him out. Especially if [...]

Introducing Swanky Mango: Swap On Twitter

It’s far from complete, but launched a Twitter swap site tonight. The basic idea is to have creative folks offer their skills or services and swap skills with others to get things done without the taint of cash. We’ll see how it goes…..
Link to other Twitter mashups.
UPDATE: swankymango is no longer around. [...]

Recent Adventures with Rake and Cron

I might be the last person to know these things, but if you wish to invoke a rake task within another rake task, here’s the syntax:
Rake::Task["thinking_sphinx:index"].invoke
And, if you happen to get funky “bad minute” errors when trying to setup said rake task via cron, make sure your cron command fits on one line while ediiting [...]

Mamadou Diabate in Some Random Ohio Town

Love it. Song to celebrate my new fish.

Good News for Jellyfish

What a great week if you’re a jellyfish or one of the world’s largest oil companies. Can’t be related can it?