https://bphogan.com/2005/07/Recent content in 2005/07 on Brian P. HoganHugo -- gohugo.ioen-ushttps://bphogan.com/2005/07/22/unix-tools/Fri, 22 Jul 2005 05:19:04 +0000https://bphogan.com/2005/07/22/unix-tools/I was working on my PE disk tonight and I came across these tools that I totally forgot about. UnixTools is a collection of command-line tools that are ports of the most common and useful “Unix Tools” a typical Unix / Linux admin would run across. So now you can use “grep” in Windows, and you can stop confusing “dir” with “ls”! Download the files here (~2.7 MB)… the file is a self-extracting archive that will prompt you for an install path.https://bphogan.com/2005/07/22/rails/Fri, 22 Jul 2005 05:14:03 +0000https://bphogan.com/2005/07/22/rails/I’ve been spending a lot of time with Ruby on Rails and I love it. I love it so much that I hate ASP and PHP more than anything. Rails takes all of the crap about programming that I hate and gets rid of all of it. It lets me avoid doing all of the database-to-form mapping and validation stuff that I hate and instead lets me focus on the presentation and design of the site.https://bphogan.com/2005/07/22/from-mom/Fri, 22 Jul 2005 05:07:29 +0000https://bphogan.com/2005/07/22/from-mom/Mom says: I’m going for the bone marrow transplant after all. I keep hearing all these success stories and I figure I’m too young to give up. I just have to recover my normal blood counts and that won’t happen ’til at least August. In the meanwhile, I get platelet transfusions and shots that produce white blood and red blood cells I completely support her decision, but I am really worried.https://bphogan.com/2005/07/16/history-of-the-laugh-track/Sat, 16 Jul 2005 14:19:09 +0000https://bphogan.com/2005/07/16/history-of-the-laugh-track/Much of the “canned laughter” used on the soundtracks of sitcoms is said to have come from tapes that were originally recorded during broadcasts of “The Red Skelton Show” in the late 1950s and early ’60s. It is eerie to realize that when we encounter a laugh track (or “sweetening”) in a recent show, some of the people we hear laughing may have been dead for decades. Yet their guffaws go on forever.https://bphogan.com/2005/07/14/learn-physics-with-mario/Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:17:06 +0000https://bphogan.com/2005/07/14/learn-physics-with-mario/This awesome flash animation is a fun and very well done way to learn about some physics concepts like frequencies and amplitudes. Check out the movie here.https://bphogan.com/2005/07/13/fun-movie-stuff/Wed, 13 Jul 2005 18:53:01 +0000https://bphogan.com/2005/07/13/fun-movie-stuff/ Dr. Doom reviews “Fantastic Four” movie. The Sith Explainedhttps://bphogan.com/2005/07/06/mmmmmm-recirculated-air/Wed, 06 Jul 2005 17:47:36 +0000https://bphogan.com/2005/07/06/mmmmmm-recirculated-air/The AC is in, and the house is much more comfortable. I slept great last night, so great that I didn’t even want to wake up. I had to take the morning off because the electricians had some more work to do and I wanted to be there when the big stuff was going on. I left them to their work about 11:30 or so, and I guess we’ll see how much of my house is left when I get hom.https://bphogan.com/2005/07/01/raiden/Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:26:01 +0000https://bphogan.com/2005/07/01/raiden/Raiden was one of my favorite platform space shooter games when I was a kid. Now, some enterprising Flash developors have made a wonderfully accurate (and great-looking) remake that you can play online. Play RaidenXhttps://bphogan.com/2005/07/01/no-ac-yet/Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:23:14 +0000https://bphogan.com/2005/07/01/no-ac-yet/I was all ready to have my AC installed today, but because of the storm, XCEL Energy (the local energy concern) decided to cancel my service and inspection. The electricians need to have the power company come out and shut things off for them so they can work, and all of the crews are out of town working to restore power to other people’s homes. But screw them… I’m hot!