January 2010
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Ruby Best Practices: Chapter 1 →
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Pathogenic Bacteria Abundant in Cigarettes →
The tobacco in cigarettes hosts a bacterial bonanza — literally hundreds of different germs, including those responsible for many human illnesses, a new study finds.
Read more via Wired Science. Download the original research article.
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CakePHP Migrations on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Enable PHP, install PEAR, update system PATH, and update PHP include_path
Open Terminal and install MDB2:
cd /usr/local
sudo pear install MDB2-2.5.0b2
sudo pear install MDB2_Driver_mysql-1.5.0b2
And then…
Install CakePHP DB Migrations
If MDB2 throws a “Native Code: 2002” error when you “cake migrate” or “cake populate”, PHP is probably looking for...
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Haiti Camp: Feeding Multitudes Requires a Plan →
A lot of people around the world are asking the same question about Haiti: What’s taking so long for food to get out. Spend a morning at the Petionville golf course, and you’ll have your answer.
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Microsoft Learned of IE Zero-Day Flaw Last... →
M$ loves you and protects you. Install IE. Don’t worry yourself over little details like social justice, tyranny, espionage, trade wars and state secrets. It’s only treason if you can’t pay the fine.
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Google Sends Right Message to China’s Police State →
Well said, Mr. Pauly
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Happy Feast of St. Margaret of Hungary!
Margaret, the daughter of King Bela IV of Hungary, was offered to God before her birth, in petition that the country would be delivered from the terrible scourge of the Tartars. The prayer having been answered, the king and queen made good their promise by placing the little girl in the Dominican convent at Vesprim. Margaret was three years old. Here, in company with other children of the...
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Happy Feast of St. Anthony the Great, founder of...
«When, therefore, they [devils] come by night to you and wish to tell the future, or say, “we are the angels,” give no heed, for they lie. Yea even if they praise your discipline and call you blessed, hear them not, and have no dealings with them; but rather sign yourselves and your houses, and pray, and you shall see them vanish. For they are cowards, and greatly fear the sign of the...
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Happy Feast of the Martyrs of Morocco, first...
From The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi, by Father Candide Chalippe
(available FREE from Project Gutenberg)
In the course of the year 1220, Francis received the news of the martyrdom of the five religious whom he had sent to Morocco. We must relate the circumstances, more at length, since they belong to the life of the holy Patriarch, who gave this mission to these valorous...
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Google, Citing Cyber Attack, Threatens to Exit... →
Kudos to Google for reconsidering its “devil deal”. Here’s hoping Cisco, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, Yahoo and a dozen other U.S. ventures might also rescind their support of the Great Firewall madness. via NYTimes.com
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Please pray for Holly
O great St. Peregrine, you have been called “The Mighty”, “The Wonder Worker” because of the numerous miracles which you obtained from God for those who have turned to you in their need. For so many years, you bore in your own flesh this cancerous disease that destroys the very fiber of our being.
You turned to God when the power of human beings could do no more, and you...
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Watchvia Los Angeles Times