Monthly Archives: March 2006

New toy!

Nope, it’s not an HD TV, it’s not a new sound system, and it’s not a MacBook Pro laptop. In fact, it’s not even mine… Karen bought herself a new camera – the Optio W10. It’s a really cute, lightweight … Continue reading

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Gimme something useful darnit!

I received the latest Communications of the ACM in the mail last week. It has a number of what looked to be really interesting articles on a topic that interests me: self-managing systems. As you can probably tell from the … Continue reading

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python page update

The new python web site at http://www.python.org/ is looking really sharp. It got a major facelift today. I had happened upon the site after I wandered over to install IPython, which is an interesting shell mechanism.

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A lot later than I expected…

WWDC 2006 is scheduled a lot later in the year than I expected. Kinda nice though – it means I don’t have any conflicts in June. The only other conference I’m thinking about attending this year is OSCON 2006.

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I’m free!!!!

Finally, I’m free! I’d been holding off starting to read Judas Unchained, the sequel to Pandora’s Star, which just came out in hardback for the US market last week. Of course once I started it, I had a VERY hard … Continue reading

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#macsb Iron Coder!

The first #macsb Iron Coder contest is over, and the judging is in progress. I’m not even sure how many entries there were, but I’m looking forward to seeing what comes out of it. I mean, really – the API … Continue reading

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