06.25.08
Posted in Audible, Books at 12:22 pm by ryan
On top of the actual paper copy of “Founders at Work” that I’m reading for some reason, I’ve put together the list of audible books I’ll be going through next…
Does America Need a Foreign Policy?
By: Henry Kissinger
Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling
By: Ross King
The Enlightened Despots (Unabridged)
By: Geoffrey Bruun
China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power (Unabridged)
By: Rob Gifford
I’ve already started listening to Kissinger’s foreign policy book and it’s an absolutely incredible read. If you’re interested in international relations and recent history, I think you’ll also find this one enlightening. I might put it up there with Legacy of Ashes, the history of the CIA, which was also an incredible read!
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06.22.08
Posted in Geeking Out, Ruby on Rails, Web at 7:08 am by ryan
Got all geeked out about two things today… One was a really strange bug on my Mac’s version of Rails… Had to patch the rails time.rb and conversions.rb to get it all worked out. If get an error that looks something like:
NoMethodError: private method `to_date’ called for Sun Jun 22 21:02:51 +0800 2008:Time
Then, you’ll need to patch Rails (or upgrade) in Rails Changeset 6099.
Second, I’ve been wanting to improve the way online times/dates are handled, and known this can be done via Javascript and storing times in UTC, but hadn’t see how easy this is. Just take a look at TheRailsWay.com’s “scribbish.js” file. The functions you’re interested in are:
- show_dates_as_local_time
- get_local_time_for_date
- distance_of_time_in_words
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06.13.08
Posted in Economics at 1:23 pm by ryan
Under the market economy you are rewarded to moving resources from where they are undervalued to where they are valued more — and punished severely for misallocating resources.
There’s a great old book by george soros, alchemy of finance, that you should read to better understand the market.
If the year was 1900 and you operated the #1 wagon wheel factory in the country, what would you do? Answer - CHANGE. The market changes. Everything changes. We either capitalize on the change, or ignore the change and get hurt by it — but no matter how hard we close our eyes, the change will happen just the same.
(Excerpt from an email I sent to a close friend)
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