Passenger debuted today and boy was I excited. Mod Rails (Passenger) for those of you who don’t know already is an apache module that lets you deploy Ruby on Rails applications just like you do PHP applications. I can hear you saying, “So What?” already!

An interesting debate has taken shape over the past 5 years or so about the severity of content filtering within K-12 networks. When I say content filtering I mean school districts being asked, by law, to restrict access to sites that are potentially dangerous in some way for them to access.

Friday at 12:00am I started working to develop the visual style that would become our app for the Railsrumble.

Sunday at 12:25am I got to sleep after working with Jared to build a complete Rails application and deploy it in just 48 hours.

I have to gush a little bit because for my 29th birthday my lovely wife bought me a 22″ Widescreen monitor that matches the one I already own.  I love working with dual screens when doing everything from programming to just surfing the net because I can leave my communication tools open on one screen while I work on another.

I have been using iWork ‘08 since Friday as a part of their 30 day trial program and I love it.

One of the things I’ve always bemoaned about my beloved MacBook is that I have to run Crossover Mac + Office 2003 to get office suite interoperability in a nice package. iWork now features an application called “Numbers” so that I have interoperability between Word (Pages), PowerPoint (Keynote), and FINALLY Excel (Numbers).