Sam’s random musings

Are You Sure You’re Sure?:

(Via Bug Bash.)

On Rails sessions [1]:

Like everything else in Rails, sessions are pretty easy to use. Unfortunately, the default session configuration isn’t particular well suited for a shared host.

Worth reading the rest if you deal with custom sessions in your web app (or other app for that matter) the CakePHP default handling ofsessions is also easy to use but by default uses cake’s own tmp directory. Do read the article and if you don’t like rails that’s ok.

(Via TextDrive Weblog.)

The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny:

My friend from college just sent me a link to The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, which is the greatest thing I have seen in a while.

The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny A funny way to start off your day.

(Via An Experiment in Bloggery.)

Great Honda ad:

I agree with Liz Lawley, this is a great Honda ad. Here’s why it’s great: it’s aspirational (translation, it makes you feel good) and it shows you their products being used.

It’s funny something about the guy seems familiar

(Via The Scobleizer Weblog.)

Adobe Lightroom Public Beta:

Direct competitor to Aperture, available for download as a free public beta that expires in June (intriguingly, only for Mac — support for Windows is coming later). Don’t miss the video tour of Lightroom’s features and interface.

Worth looking at price is yet to be determined, I do find it interesting that it came out for mac first, not the way that Adobe usually does things…

(Via Daring Fireball Linked List.)

Advanced Editing in Camera Raw:

Go further with Adobe’s Camera Raw software. You’ll be amazed at the control you can have over white balance, exposure, highlights, shadows, brightness, contrast, and saturation!

(Via creativepro.com - all stories.)

toggle “edit mode”:

(Via OK/Cancel.)

“Needs More Cowbell”:

You’re right, it lacks cowbell.

Though I wasn’t familiar with the phrase, I knew exactly what he meant.

Fast forward to this week.

the clip online and everything came full circle to me. At least, as far as I know.

(Via alexking.org: Blog.)