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I remember reading the first 4 books in college and wondering if it was even possible for a film adaptation to do them justice. As it turns out, it is possible since the first season of GoT was splendid. Many of the actors fit their character roles perfectly; they were just as I imagined while reading the novels.

Only around 2 more months until the start of the next season!

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Definitely. If you log in to your WP blog at least once a day, it informs you about any updates and lets you apply the update with the click of a button.

Ah, I remember reading about the timthumb bug at work and checking right away when I got home if my site was vulnerable to it (which it wasn't).

I highly recommend going with hosting your own WordPress. The setup is painless and allows you to quickly get your blog up and running. There are tons of themes to choose from that you can use as a foundation to get the appearance you desire. The plugin system also works great and allows you to easily add various features to your blog.

I have used WordPress for a non-technical blog for over 3 years now without any issues. I've also been thinking about starting a technical blog and have been looking into using Drupal for it.

I've always found estimating hours for a project to be somewhat difficult, especially when the client wants a concrete number right at the beginning for the entire project. I usually roughly estimate how long I think it will take, and then raise that by 1/3 to account for changes in specification by the client along the way.

A good read, thanks for the insight into YC!

Thanks for the tips, I was recently thinking of installing Linux on my secondary desktop and Arch seems like a good choice.

I played around with Slackware a few years ago and it was a good learning experience doing things like trying to get wifi to work and configuring xmonad. Arch does appear to have more extensive/organized documentation compared to Slackware though, which would make the learning process go smoother.

I recommend RailsInstaller as well for Windows users. It is straightforward to set up and I've had no issues so far using it.

When I get more experience in Rails though, I'll probably switch over to using a Mac.