August 2005
Htmini.com shows up in Mac Addict
One of my other projects made it—albeit very briefly—into a major magazine! The mention is just a URL and a sentence of text, but it’s still really cool ;)
Google Talk
hey everyone! Google Talk is up and running! You can use Google’s client on Windows but you can use any 3rd party client that supports Jabber (Trillian, GAIM, Adium, iChat). I’ll be signed in as clintecker@gmail.com so add me as a contact!
PIctures from Arkansas (and points inbetween)
Arkansas Trip 2005 pics
!http://photos27.flickr.com/36056779_b2cc7db0b5.jpg!
Check em out and Jacqui has got a complete writeup of the whole adventure, so check it out.
Avoid exposure to direct sunlight
Me and a bunch of coworkers (and management) were treated to an afternoon at a Reds game (we won!) and I felt the full brunt of the sun :( I am burnt to a crisp! This is what happens when pasty nerds are exposed to sunlight for more than 2 hours:
Even though I wore my Reds cap, my face still managed to get all red. yech, I’ll be feeling this in the morning for sure.
My shoes match my website's color scheme
I love em!
My computer savviness quiz
ahem
magpiebrain: A comparison of Django with Rails
Rails is framework which emerged from the development of a web application, Basecamp. Django was emerged from the development of the highly successful Lawrence Journal World. Both applications were written in situations and organisations that historically would have ended up being written in Perl or PHP - but ended up being written in Ruby and Python respectively. URL: magpiebrain - A comparison...
Chris Shiflett: PHP 6.0 Excitement
The latest news is from an email Rasmus sent to the internals list earlier today. He mentions doing a bit of spring cleaning and proposes getting rid of several PHP features, including: register_globals magic_quotes safe_mode URL: Chris Shiflett: PHP 6.0 Excitement
I look forward to PHP getting some cooler stuff ;) The other big thing is great Unicode support. I should really start messing...
New shoes
I ordered two new pairs of shoes this evening. The first pair I’ve had my eye on for a while now. These are those “woven” Air Force One Premiums that were released in various Caribbean colors (red and orange, yellow and green, etc). These are black, white, and graphite which much better fits my style of clothing:
!http://phaedo.cx/images/af1_lo_wve_blk_7.jpg!
The next pair is a new...
AMK's Journal: Dallas PyCon bid accepted
PyCon 2006 will be held in Dallas, Texas, from February 23-26 2006. See the PyCon 2006 wiki page for links to the hotel web site and information about the local area. (As you’d expect for a wiki, feel free to add other useful information about the area.) URL: AMK’s Journal: Dallas PyCon bid accepted
I’d really like to try and attend PyCon this year, I might start saving up a...
Tips and tricks
And while on the topic of Python, Domenico Carbotta asked for a running environment for Python which would catch exceptions and show these with links to the source. I pointed him toward how pdflatex and xcodebuild uses the HTML output capability of commands to present a glorified build report with potential errors shown using hyperlinks, and it didn’t take him long to create something even nicer...
The Christian Paradox (Harpers.org)
And therein is the paradox. America is simultaneously the most professedly Christian of the developed nations and the least Christian in its behavior. That paradox—more important, perhaps, than the much touted ability of French women to stay thin on a diet of chocolate and cheese—illuminates the hollow at the core of our boastful, careening culture. URL: The Christian Paradox (Harpers.org)
PyWebOff - Comparing Python Web Frameworks
Michelle Levesque compares seven popular Python web frameworks (excepting Django and Subway, which are both kinda new):
CherryPy, Quixote, Twisted, WebWare and Zope were the five frameworks that were receiving the most attention when this exercise began. Karrigell is being included as an example light-weight framework, and CGI (print statements) is being included as a control set, to see what...
Winning T-Shirts
The two shirts that ended up winning in our contest on [Test Tube T-Shirts were]:
!http://testtubetshirts.com/blog/wp-images/poll2005/thumbs/tn_shirt-03-notreal.png! i am not real
and
!http://testtubetshirts.com/blog/wp-images/poll2005/thumbs/tn_shirt-06-thebird.png! ASCII bird flippage
I’d like to get everyone’s [opinions on what color t-shirts people like]. We really want to expand...
Does it make me any less of a man
Does it makes me any less of a man that I am truly and utterly addicted to the song “Cater 2 U” by “Destiny’s Child?”
!http://phaedo.cx/images/cater2u.gif!
I recommend the Storch Remix from the iTunes music store ;)
Team in Training
My Aunt, Julie, is cycling for something called Team in Training
I am training to participate in an endurance event as a member of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team In Training. All of us on Team In Training are raising funds to help stop leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma from taking more lives. I’m completing this marathon in honor of all individuals who are battling...
Django Community Aggregator
If I post about the Django Community Aggregator will it unleash a self-refferential, BTTF-style black hole thingie? Lets see: http://www.djangoproject.com/community/
New hat!
Python and Ruby at Codezoo
O’Reilly has finally added Python and Ruby sections to Codezoo, which used to be 100% Java (yech!)
Cool things are happening in Cincinnati
First up, the Banks have [secured $29M in investment money from private developers].
Second, The Millworks is going before the Cincinnati finance committee on August 1st, Cincinnati City Council on August 3rd. If all goes well, things can [begin in earnest this September]!
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