Why I decided to visit Kansas City: it’s not just Google Fiber

A Little About Me I’m a hacker and entrepreneur from Los Angeles, California. My initial introduction to technology came when I was a child, and my dad showed me how to assemble our own computers. I was intimidated at first, but I was also fascinated. Our first family computer was a 486DX with 16MB RAM…Continue Reading…

San Diego Day Trip

Elliot and I took the day off to go down south to San Diego. It was quite convenient since we both had business there. My friend was gracious enough to let us stay the night, so that we would have the full Friday to do stuff. We started our morning off to the Broken Yolk…Continue Reading…

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TSA Employee Supports Ron Paul

I placed my backpack on the conveyor belt and told the TSA employee that I would like to opt-out from using the scanner. I was instructed to stand to the side, while a woman communicated: “Male opt-out.” A nice-looking young guy came over and led me through a short glass security gate. We picked out…Continue Reading…

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An Error Occurred – User interaction is not allowed

I encountered this problem on a friend’s Mac. We were trying to request a certificate from a certificate authority (to create a signing certificate for iOS apps). This is probably a permissions problem. Try promoting your user to Admin – give it permission to Administer this computer.

Was Jesus humble?

I just noticed that WordPress has a Word count. That’s nice – I can set a goal and just keep typing until I reach it. My goal shall be 500. Five hundred words per post sounds good. Today I would like to write about the humility and meekness of Jesus. According to C.S. Lewis: “Christ says…Continue Reading…

rspec test: failure/error: visit ‘/home’ no method error or routing error: no route matches [get] “/home”

I’m developing a Ruby on Rails web app, and this problem tripped me up for a while. I couldn’t get an rspec test to work. Here are the errors I was getting: emlmbp:captivesurveys eml$ rake spec:views /Users/eml/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/bin/ruby -S rspec ./spec/views/home/index.html.erb_spec.rb FF Failures: 1) home/index.html.erb displays proper title Failure/Error: visit ‘/’ NoMethodError: undefined method `visit’ for…Continue Reading…