June 2006
Hey buddy. Wanna buy an iBook?
I’m selling my iBook on eBay. Buy it now for US$700!
[Check out all the pictures on Flickr].
May 2006
Oh dear lord: White Trash Bash
It was Logan’s 26th birthday last night and it had a theme, can you figure it out from these pictures?
Wut Wut
A great Saturday
Woke up at 8:30am
Went on a 4.2 mile walk with Jacqui
Went to Snooty Fox in Hyde Park. Jacqui bought a hot skirt, hot shoes, and hot sunglasses for only US$30!
Ate right next door at an awesome Indian place called [Cumin].
Picked up some flowers [1] [2] [3] [4], and other stuff at a nearby Biggs
Picked up supplies for the kittens at the Complete Pet Mart and met a cool store...
Ars Technica MacBook Review
Readers of the site know I’m now the proud owner of a MacBook! I wrote up a seven page review of the machine for Ars Technica, check it out:
We all knew it was coming and we had a pretty good idea about what form it would be arriving in. The announcement was supposedly delayed for a week, and the tension building up to its actual release was thick despite the overwhelming amount of...
MacBook
White, 2.0GHz Core Duo proc, 512MB, 60GB, Superdrive.
Wee!
Clinthulu
Bierocks!
Guess what we made for dinner tonight? [Bierocks]! Don’t know what a Bierock is? It’s just a bread you bake with hamburger/pepper/salt/cabbage/onion inside!
Indianapolis Ars Technica Mini-meet
Jacqui had her fun on Cinco De Mayo and I had mine at the Indy Ars meet on Saturday:
Yikes! It was a bunch of fun though :)
MEATBALLS
Lions head meatballs! Num!
JeffCroft.com: Django for non-programmers
An awesome post by an amazing web designer (if his blog is any estimation of his skills) on why he found Django to be the right tool for the job (his blog). It helps a lot when you work with the guys who wrote the framework ;)
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I consider myself a web designer. I don’t dabble too deeply into programming. That having been said, I have downloaded, installed, and customized many-a-PHP-script...
More salivation
Me and Jacqui used up some hamburger in the fridge this weekend for a cheap, but delicious lunch!
We mixed minced garlic and worshesershire sauce with the burger and cooked up some fat burgers. We topped them with stuff like tomatoes, avacado, mayo, and ketchup on whole wheat buns. Yum!
On Sunday night we made Veal Saltimboca, which sounds difficult, but it’s really quite simple. ...
Django: Magic-Removal branch merged to trunk
The main Django developers and hundreds of community contributors have been working for months to refactor Django so that it’s easier to used and more “pythonic.” When Guido Van Rossum trialed web frameworks for his job at Google, he really liked Django except that there was too much “magic” going on behind the scenes.
What that means, basically, is that there was a lot of dynamic module...