Residents are still upset about townhomes invading their neighborhoods and yuppies taking over Ballard.

Don’t fear Seattle residents, the construction slowdown is upon us and the all powerful economic gods of too much supply and not enough demand are putting the breaks on the yuppie invasion.

File this under old news, but it costs about 4% of the value of your home when a sex offender moves in nearby. Ouch.

We announced a round of angel investment yesterday. It’s been quite a ride getting to this point and I’m very excited about the next year - we’ll have more news to share soon enough.

I’d like to thank Brier Dudley, John Cook, Bloodhound blog and everyone else for covering the news!

This “charmer” is the featured property on the Capitol Hill blog’s neighborhood recruitment program this week. Only in Capitol Hill, Seattle is a property well into jumbo loan territory be considered entry level. We do appreciate the Capitol Hill blog’s efforts and we realize that they really are looking at the less expensive properties (check out this orange charmer for example).

Capitol Hill blog seems ahead of the curve - I couldn’t find a neighborhood recruitment program on most of the other Seattle blogs I looked at.

We don’t normally post about the software that powers our non-blog site (Ruby On Rails - we like it a lot), but I just clicked through for some documentation and lo-and-behold, RubyOnRails.org is now squaterville:

According to domaintools.com, it has been snatched up by a company called Next Angle. It looks like the domain was originally purchased for 4 years on 19-Apr-2004. I’ve seen that same splash page on a lot of typo names.

Until this is worked out (until the squatter is paid extortion money), no installing gems from rubyonrails.org, no documentation from rubyonrails.org, and no love from all the dhh / rails haters in the world.

Update: Apparently it was a hosting problem (that host sure has a spammy default page). From where I sit it’s back online as of today.