“We don’t celebrate ‘dependence (on the government) day’ July 4th, we celebrate Independence Day!”
“I can’t help thinking, while much of the 20th century saw the rise of the federal government, the 21st Century will be the century of the states. I have always believed that America is strongest and freest and happiest when it is truest to the wisdom of its founders.”
“Too often, character assassination has replaced debate in principle in Washington, D.C. Destroy someone’s reputation and you don’t have to talk about what he stands for.”
“One thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee…they were farmers, professional men, businessmen giving of their time and effort to a dream and an idea that became a country…was (today) a nation governed by professional politicians who had a vested interest in getting re-elected. They probably envisioned a fellow serving a couple of hitches and then looking eagerly forward to getting back to the farm.”
“The image of George Washington kneeling in prayer in the snow is one of the most famous in American history. He personified a people who knew it was not enough to depend on their own courage and goodness, they must also seek help from God, their Father and Preserver.”
“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”
“How can we not believe in the greatness of America? How can we not do what is right and needed to preserve this last best hope of man on earth? After all our struggles to restore America, to revive confidence in our country, hope for our future - after all our hard won victories earned through the patience and courage of every citizen- we cannot, must not and will not turn back. We will finish our job. How could we do less? We’re Americans.”
No Comments | July 11, 2008
MarsEdit has been awesome. I have never posted so many solutions to ruby on rails coding problems before. The desktop editor makes it so much easier to do so that I actually quite enjoy it. If you are having trouble motivating yourself to post blog entries (especially if you’re a programmer wishing to document your solutions to problems so that you don’t find yourself forgetting how to do things) go get MarsEdit. It’s great.
Just came across Geektool. It’s pretty cool, and a great way to customize your desktop to your super power user needs.
No Comments | June 25, 2008
I’ve created a freely available content management system. It is rails based and easy to install. It includes wysiwyg editing using tinymce, image insertion, page management, sub pages, page re-ordering using ajax, and user management.
motte_cms - project page
motte_cms - github
No Comments | June 17, 2008
I am starting to using sqlite in my rails apps for experimentation sake, and to keep up with the community. However, no one seems to have any advice on what sql manager to use. For MySQL, previously, I was using CocoaMySQL. It was free and worked pretty well.
So far, for sqlite3, all I can find that seems useful is the SQLiteManager.
No Comments | June 16, 2008
I gave Blogo a shot and liked it for a while, but then I tried MarsEdit. I prefer MarsEdit’s interface - more whitespace.
Though I would like the ability to auto-resize images on upload. That would be very helpful.
No Comments | June 11, 2008
I am trying out Blogo on my mac for use with this blog (it’s a wordpress based blog).
So far, it is a great tool. I really like it, and could forsee myself actually using it. It is much easier to work with than the wordpress interface (even with the new 2.5 redesign.) Sometimes you just can beat a desktop app I suppose.
2 Responses | June 5, 2008
