http://www.planningforaliens.com Practical advice for the coming invasion Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:32:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Update: Turns out I missed the boat on this one. This has already been implemented in Elixir. I just spent the better part of today putting together the pieces in order to create ActiveRecord like validation in my Elixir models. Here is what I wanted to be able to do: class Tag(Entity): ... http://www.planningforaliens.com/2008/04/20/activerecord-style-validation-using-sqlalchemy-and-elixir/ Whenever personal finance gurus are presented with a question about 401k loans they usually bark back with a list of truisms that should lead you to conclude that a 401k loan is a very bad idea: If you lose your job you will have to pay back the loan immediately or ... http://www.planningforaliens.com/2007/11/01/401k-loan-the-double-taxation-myth/ I really appreciate the comments on my last post. They were all thought provoking and fun to read. I’m looking forward to responding to them, but in the mean time this post is in a completely different vein. I really thought that I had my finances in order. Beth and I ... http://www.planningforaliens.com/2007/04/12/gtd-for-your-personal-finances/ Imagine two universes: Heaven and Everyone-Else. Heaven and Everyone-Else never touch or interact. A human in Heaven can’t see, touch, smell, taste or use any other measurement tool that could ever be created to observe Everyone-Else, and vice versa. If such a scenario exists, and we are in Everyone-Else, is it ... http://www.planningforaliens.com/2007/04/09/life-after-death/ I have had the Motorola Q for 3 months. People want to know -- do I like it? Well people, here is my answer: General Overview The Q is the latest Smartphone offering from Motorola. It is running Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone edition. It has a full QWERTY keyboard, a bright, large ... http://www.planningforaliens.com/2006/09/05/motorola-q-review/ 1. Open up your web browser to the TortoiseSVN downloads page. 2. Scroll down until you see a post entitled "The current version is..." and download the file that ends with the .msi extension under the 32 bit subheading. It will look something like the following, but the numbers could be ... http://www.planningforaliens.com/2006/08/29/how-to-install-tortoisesvn/ I offered to create Subversion repositories for some of my family and friends and to my surprise, quite a few were very interested. This article is to give a broad overview of what Subversion is and why it is incredibly useful. What is Subversion? Subversion is version control software. Version ... http://www.planningforaliens.com/2006/08/25/subversion-repositories-for-everyone/ I haven't blogged in over a year. I started Meshsandbox so that I could record my thoughts as I learned all about mesh networking. I quickly expanded the topic of the blog to include entrepreneurship, since I was learning about mesh networking in order to start a business. Considering the ... http://www.planningforaliens.com/2006/08/24/first-post/