March 23rd, 2008 by nikhilb
This number was a bit hard to find:
“You can call AT&T DSL Customer Care at 1-877-937-5288 (1-877-XDSLATT), and select the billing prompt.” from the AT&T DSL faq.
Ca number no longer Valid (sunday Aug 1)
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March 5th, 2008 by nikhilb
If you want to add a call to all the controllers in your Camping miroframework app you can use before or after overrides. These are similar to the before_filter in Rails.
Remember to return the superclass or Camping will throw a “Read error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method `status’ for nil:NilClass>” because it can’t call back into the returned controller. A modification of the above linked wiki page example illustrates -
Camping.goes :YourApp
module YourSession
def service(*a)
@session = YourApp::Session.new
s = super(*a)
@session.close
#return s from above after completing
s
end
end
module YourApp
include YourSession
end
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March 2nd, 2008 by nikhilb
Forbes had an article on the true cost of nuclear power in the US. It turns out clean coal generated power is only slightly more expensive than regular coal. On the other hand Nuclear power is significantly more expensive and only makes economic sense because of subsidies.
I didn’t see a chart in the the article so I made one with their statistics. Enjoy.

Posted in design, viz | 7 Comments »