Month: February 2007

Fun ways to fuck with Japanese people’s heads, by Chad the evil gaijin!

Ruby on Rails (or RoR) is a framework that prides itself on being really easy to get started with, and it is… to an extent. Here’s the message I got when I had finished installing it and tried to access it…

"We're sorry, but something went wrong."

Not a particularly useful error message. You have to dig through application logs and decipher the issue yourself. But the kicker is that this is the response to a basic permission error with the [project]/tmp directory created by the rails command, which I diagnosed and fixed. Still, shouldn’t RoR have been able to detect or maybe not cause the problem?

Car rental companies have come a long way since the bad old days of rent-a-wreck. Nowadays if you pay a little extra you get to try out cars that you probably wouldn’t own, and that’s what I decided to do last weekend for a road trip.

Continue reading “Adventures in Car Rental: 2007 Mercedes-Benz C280 4matic”

Not great: to get to work I must catch the last bus which leaves a subway station at 9:10, or I must catch a cab which costs me over $20. Bad: the train is delayed. Worse: it’s delayed because it’s standing still in the station. Worst: it’s standing still in the station next to the one where I catch the bus while I’m getting steamed up and impatient. There’s not much I can do about the STM’s apparent inability to make the trains run on time, but I’m starting to think that maybe I should work at a place that’s a little more convenient to get to…

Burkina Faso is the new Nigeria. I’ll give you 419 good reasons to trust these guys…