This is the year I learn to write code. Here is where we are...
CodeYear: a weekly class in Object Oriented Programming using JavaScript. Great class. Its getting hard. 
RubyLearning / Programming for the Web with Ruby:  introduces you to rack, git, heroku, and a little sinatra. Its very practical "how to" class on configuration management and cloud deployment with a little theory sprinkled in.  Here are a few things from the class: my git repository, first heroku rack deployment. And, my homepage. And a form GET POST exercise. and a GET POST exercise that pulls from remote data.
BastardsBookofRuby: How to make sense from and show hard to find data. Written by a journalist. Really good cookbook of sorts.

Poor I-Pod etiquette at the dinner table gives grown ups time to talk and draw. 

Its called Stacking. Here are the rules:

1. Food with friends.
2. All phones to the middle of the table.
3. First one to grab their phone pays the bill. 

Invented by Brian Perez.

"Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude toward life." Emily Post

Learning to code on the net is like going into a bar and asking people how to fix a back ache.  Everyone has a solution. Some good, some bad, some obsolete, some wrong. Simply configuring my computer with the proper version of ruby, rails, and database just so i could start learning was a two week endeavor. Its sort of like building your own lightsaber. My training curriculum: code year, rails casts, vim tutor, Satish Talim's Learning Ruby.  

// use taxiFare to set tripCost to the cost of your 
// ride covering 5 miles at 2 am in the morning