http://weblog.masukomi.org mah-soo-koh-me Sat, 17 May 2008 18:49:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en New motorcyclists tend to spend most, or all, of their pennies on their new bike without considering, or perhaps realizing, just how much it's going to cost to protect themselves on the bike. Of course, having just bought the bike, there's no way they're not going to ride it.... While I ... http://weblog.masukomi.org/2008/05/17/the-financial-cost-of-motorcycle-safety The Fieldsheer Highland II is a surprisingly affordable and thoroughly armored one-piece motorcycle suit. At $230 from Motorcycle Closeouts it's quite possibly the most inexpensive way to get a full compliment of CE rated armor including hip and back. Its nearest competitor is the $450 Olympia Phantom (scroll for more). Sizing: It ... http://weblog.masukomi.org/2008/05/03/fieldsheer-highland-ii-review I haven't posted here much, but it doesn't mean I haven't been posting. ;) You see, I try and keep this blog fairly focused on useful articles, and leave my personal life out of it. As you may have noticed, some of the personal had been creeping back in here, and ... http://weblog.masukomi.org/2008/04/28/not-as-absent-as-it-seems Warning: The following will probably be offensive to the humor impaired. To those who aren't geeks, and don't live with them, I must first explain a bit about geek humor. We love word plays. We love intentionally seeing the humor in taking people at what they say instead of what they ... http://weblog.masukomi.org/2008/04/16/dessert-response-or-f-tibet If your Test Case is a package whose goal is to test all aspects of a particular class then a Test Suite is something which kicks off a collection of related Test Cases. As with most things in Test::Unit it's really easy to do and also terribly documented. So, without ... http://weblog.masukomi.org/2008/04/09/how-to-create-a-test-suite-in-perls-testunit-v025 Lets be totally clear here. The statistics say that your are roughly as likely to get in an accident while driving a motorcycle as you are while driving a car. The obvious difference being that a car has a safety cage, and a motorcycle has, well... nothing. So, if ... http://weblog.masukomi.org/2008/04/05/so-you-want-to-ride-a-motorcycle-and-not-die I'm a big fan of dishes that are easy and fast. One night I was at the store, saw some catfish and decided to buy mysef a fillet. When I got it home I had to find some way to make it interesting with my limited spices. The result has ... http://weblog.masukomi.org/2008/03/30/kates-incredibly-simple-catfish-recipe Pretty much everyone agrees that Gravatar rocks. A global avatar that shows up wherever you make a comment on a blog (sometimes even in your desktop apps). And I don't think anyone other than naive VC guys wants another "social networking" site, so I'm not going there. But, imagine what ... http://weblog.masukomi.org/2008/03/20/lazyweb-idea-gravata-network-of-sites-gravanetric Preface: I killed my previous post about why I wouldn't buy LineForms or VectorDesigner. It was poorly written and after some serious re-evaluation I ended up buying LineForms. ---- A weekend without net, and a desire to draw left me desperately trying to find a vector based drawing package that worked they ... http://weblog.masukomi.org/2008/03/17/finding-a-decent-vector-graphics-app-for-os-x I'm reading through Squeak By Example because I've got some ideas rumbling around in my head that might be nice to do in Smalltalk. Having an integrated visual environment where everything is an object opens a lot of data visualization possibilities. Anyway, it has been probably two years since I've ... http://weblog.masukomi.org/2008/03/13/squeak-by-example-first-impressions