Monthly Archives: July 2006

Headin’ to OSCON

Been getting myself together to head to Portland next week – I’m off to the OReilly Open Source Convention. Looks like there’ll be a pile of really interesting sessions, and I’m really looking forward to a number of them. I … Continue reading

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Installing Django on MacOS X (development version)

How to install a development ready setup of Django on MacOS X 10.4 (Tiger). Yep, step by step. I took the easiest possible track for installation – installing with SQLite support. Not what you’d probably want to do for any … Continue reading

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Howl’s Moving Castle

Karen borrowed the book Howl’s Moving Castle from the library the other evening. After she’d finished it (yes, I let her finish it), I picked it up. It is a thoroughly delightful read, and different than the movie – but … Continue reading

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one of those crazy assed days

It’s been one of those crazy assed days, you know? Last minute appointments and tasks rolling in, I’m getting set to head to OSCON 2006 next week, and trying to keep up with everything while this is all happening. Add … Continue reading

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last rays

Caught this with the iBook’s built in camera, looking over my shoulder at the last of the evening light through a north facing window.

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more on live documentation

Writing documentation, you know – it wears me out. Today I fleshed out something like 30 pages of documentation from 10 pages of notes. And you know the thing that worries me most? If I give this stuff to the … Continue reading

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Google research

A nice idea that I caught on Digg – Google’s Binary Search Helps Identify Malware. The article at PCWorld goes on to describe using Google’s index to hunt for malware on hosted machines, which is a wonderful way to use … Continue reading

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Backups, step by step

OReillyNet (specifically Paddy Sreenivasan) has a nice article that really walks you through doing data backups for your classic ‘LAMP’ systems – basically, “here’s how to back up your database”. That may seem kinda silly and redundant, but considering how … Continue reading

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5 Spot – Baja

Karen and I had a (quite) late dinner tonight at the 5 Spot. They’ve updated their menu to “Baja” and boy do I have a recommendation now! Camarones Costa Azul Bacon wrapped plump prawns stuffed with queso fresco and golden … Continue reading

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Operational effectiveness

Tim OReilly posted an entry today entitled Operations: The New Secret Sauce, where he makes some interesting points. The post is really a relayed and summarized email transcript between he and Nat about how Microsoft may have this wicked mean … Continue reading

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