Wednesday
Mar202013
Ground Beetle
Wed 2013-03-20 
A Poecilus cupreus = Pterostichus cupreus (Coleoptera: Carabidae).
Photo taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-05-13.
Wed 2013-03-20 Tuesday
Mar192013
Another Cardinal Beetle
Tue 2013-03-19 
Again from last spring: a red-headed cardinal beetle, Pyrochroa serraticornis (Coleoptera: Pyrochroidae).
Photos taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-05-13.
Monday
Mar182013
Cardinal Beetle
Mon 2013-03-18 
From last spring: a black-headed cardinal beetle, Pyrochroa coccinea (Coleoptera: Pyrochroidae).
Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-05-11.
Sunday
Mar172013
Longhorn Beetle
Sun 2013-03-17 
From last summer: longhorn beetle Agapanthia villosoviridescens (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Photo taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-06-19.
Saturday
Mar162013
RVM SSL Certificate Errors
Sat 2013-03-16 The Ruby Version Manager RVM is one of the key components in a Ruby development environment on non-Windows platforms.
Yesterday I wanted to install it on my Ubuntu laptop. The recommended way of doing is to run the following command in a terminal:
curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
Unfortunately this gave SSL certificate verification errors. Visiting rvm.io in Firefox and Chrome indicated that this was due to the site's security certificate having expired.
A little Googling revealed the recommended workaround which is to use Gihub instead of rvm.io:
curl -L https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer | bash -s stable
