I reviewed and approved 147 comments in the genealogy section. Another 7 comments were reviewed and hidden, as they contained too much information on living people. I also updated the database based on info from the comments.

I’ve completely neglected these comments for well over a year now. The earliest comment was from May of 2004! I think I’m pretty well burned out on all the genealogy research/correspondence after 15-20 years, but I need to at least keep the comments up to date and respond to questions when I can.

Anyway, it seems like this GTD stuff might be working for me.

I recently implemented a separate print style sheet, so that you will get nicely formatted pages when printing anything off of infused.org. When printing, the fonts will be a bit bigger, and there will be no sidebar, headers, footers, ads, or other extra stuff to gum up your print outs.

I’ve tested it pretty well on the blog, blog archives, photography, and genealogy pages. The wiki pages still won’t style well for printing now. I’ll fix that later. Test it out and if you notice anything that doesn’t look right let me know.

A couple of weeks ago, I hosted a 2.5 hour interactive presentation on Ruby and Ruby on Rails. The purpose of the presentation was to show the various ways in which Rails can improve our ability to build complex applications with small agile teams rather than large hierarchical teams.

There are 30 slides in the presentation, which I interspersed with live demonstrations in which we drilled down into some of the technologies and methodologies. The first section of slides is a quick intro to Ruby, which I borrowed heavily/outright copied from the Get to the Point! slides by Ryan Platt and John W. Long.

The slides are available in two flavors:

• Rails Slides (PDF)
• Rails Slides (Keynote 2)

Went to see Ozomatli and State Radio at the Roseland with a bunch of friends last night. I like a couple of Ozomatli songs, and have one of their albums, but despite their energy I just couldn’t get into the groove. Not my thing I guess. On the other hand, I really liked State Radio and am going to buy a couple of the CD from their site.

I’m pretty disappointed that 37signals has shut down comments on the Signal vs. Noise blog. I find reading other people’s reactions one of the best parts of reading the blog, but I can understand the reason for shutting them down temporarily.

In the long term, I think a better idea is to limit the number of comments on any one post so that the comments don’t get a chance to go off topic or turn drastically negative. I rarely read past 30-50 comments myself, and I really doubt that many other people do either. My suggestion is to set a limit of 30 comments and see how that goes.

UPDATE: _Why just reminded us that if you are using Mousehole, you can leave comments via Hoodwink.d.