I decided to install ubuntu onto my iMac G3450Mhz G3, 768mb ram, 20GB Hard Drive to play around with. Only problem was it would boot so far, then just stop at a black screen. In googling the fix, the blog post that contains the fix is slightly outdated and 100% 404.

When I create a new rails app, I'm constantly going back to another project and stealing the .gitignore file from it to make sure that git doesn't know about certain files rails either updates frequently, or stores machine-specific data in. The latter is generally just config/database.yml, because I develop alongside my colleagues at Brightbox and we deploy via capistrano, ...

Back in the day I swapped the keys on my 12" powerbook keyboard around to read macgenius across the middle row.

So I managed to secure a place to HabariCon '08. Not quite sure what to expect, but being able to meet other people in real life and talk about habari & related things all day will be quite cool.