Monthly Archives: May 2007

Scooters!

Since we’ll be moving soon, and I’ll be closer to work and able to traverse somewhat safer neighborhoods to get there, I’m thinking of getting a motor scooter. The gas mileage of some of these guys is nuts — 60+ MPG — and they’re safe, cool, and just downright fun. I realized that Durham is laid out such that one can get around to the major districts — ATC, Ninth Street, Downtown, New Hope Commons, Der Übertarget — on surface streets, most of which have 35-45 MPH speed limits. If it worked out I’d sell my car, and that alone would cut down on my expenses just in insurance and taxes, not to mention fuel. There are a whole lot of options to choose from, though, and that’s where the trouble begins.

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Issue Trackers and Project Management

I’m going to be pushing a software project I’ve been working on out into the open source world sometime in the near future, so I’ve been considering what I want to use to keep track of the software’s development. I initially started by creating a RubyForge project for it, because the tool is written in Ruby and that’s just what you do with Ruby projects, but I’ve also been thinking about Trac and Launchpad.

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.2

Just a quick post to test whether or not my upgrade to WordPress 2.2 was successful.