Circlingthesun

I found this video a while ago. I really like it.

The much anticipated Diaspora source code was released earlier this week. I followed the instruction at http://github.com/diaspora/diaspora but encountered the following error when installing bundler.

ERROR:  Error installing bundler:

bundler requires RubyGems version >= 1.3.6

It appears that there was a slight problem with the RubyGems PPA on the instruction page.

To install diaspora open a terminal, navigate to the desired installation directory and execute:

echo “deb http://downloads.mongodb.org/distros/ubuntu 10.4 10gen” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv 7F0CEB10

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install build-essential libxslt1.1 libxslt1-dev libxml2 ruby-full mongodb-stable imagemagick libmagick9-dev git-core

wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/69365/rubygems-1.3.6.tgz

tar -zxvf rubygems-1.3.6.tgz

cd rubygems-1.3.6

sudo ruby setup.rb

cd ..

rm -r rubygems-1.3.6

sudo gem install bundler

git clone http://github.com/diaspora/diaspora.git

cd diaspora

bundle install

sudo service mongodb start

bundle exec thin start

>> Using rack adapter

>> Thin web server (v1.2.7 codename No Hup)

>> Maximum connections set to 1024

>> Listening on 0.0.0.0:3000, CTRL+C to stop

It’s been almost 2 months since I landed here. What to say, what to say…

Guys here are a lot shorter than back home. The other day I asked one of the waitresses that works with me if she thinks I’m short. Her response was something along the lines of: “You? Short? What are you talking about? I have work to do!” Okay, that part were she had work to do, I made that up.

Now that the festive season has come and gone the restaurant is pretty much empty. Also the manager decided to hire an army of waiters so now every night we outnumber the customers. I used to like studying the behaviour of colourful  sea creatures in our aquarium when I was bored at work. But  lately I’ve found it far more interesting to look at the dynamics of mini waiter colonies of baby blue and white scattering and reforming around the restuarant as the managers move around.