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This site runs a custom-built content management system that I wrote when I was teaching myself Rails.  As it was a learning project, the code was full of bugs and suffered from generally poor design.  This afternoon I ripped out the guts and bashed out some new code, essentially from scratch.  The goal is reduce the ridiculous number of 500 errors that was occuring because I was...

• Rails Envy: Ruby on Rails Rake Tutorial (aka. How rake turned me into an alcoholic)
  Great rake tutorial.
  (tags: ruby_on_rails rake tutorial programming)

• Cherry-Picker in Chief
  Nate Silver shows once again why he is the biggest nerd in politics, this time w/the NCAA tourney.
  (tags: tweet obama basketball 538 statistics)
• Bat Tarbet 'tethered to battery' live video excerpt
  (tags: tweet bat_tarbet performance music absurd)

Here's the video from the most recent Bat Tarbet performance, last Sunday at Koko-Teatteri in Helsinki.  Thanks to Juho Jouhtimäki for shooting and sharing this.

• A foot and a half: Finally, A Use for Twitter
  Amazing Twitter story.
  (tags: tweet twitter sports)

• Bat Tarbet 'noses' live video excerpt
  From last week's show.
  (tags: tweet self video bat_tarbet icewhistle)