Monthly Archives: September 2007

iPhone addict

Posted on September 26, 2007 by Joe

Hello, my name is Joe… and I am an iPhone addict. That’s how it starts, right? The phone has been a great success for me. I’ve “played with” other, older smart phones (the iPaq with WIFI and CDMA – I … Continue reading →

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Acorn and Python goodness

Posted on September 26, 2007 by Joe

When Gus created Acorn, he also included a plugin mechanism – using Python. Now there’s an excellent writeup at Enigmata on exactly how to go about that scripting and extending Acorn to do your whimsical bidding. It’s a really great … Continue reading →

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HALO 3 Launch Party

Posted on September 24, 2007 by Joe

Let me start by admitting that this whole thing, to me, is a little silly. Still, silly or not, I couldn’t help coming over to bellevue this evening to see what this thing is all about. At the moment there’s … Continue reading →

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continued assault on the microsoft office suite

Posted on September 17, 2007 by Joe

OK, so it’s not really – but that’s how I view it. Google Documents released their presentation goodies so you can now do that whole “create slide presentations” (of course, I wanted to call it a “deck” or “powerpoint” – … Continue reading →

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Django Buildbot

Posted on September 15, 2007 by Joe

Some very cool news – Django now has a public build site up (http://buildbot.djangoproject.com/)and running, matching the trunk and one of the branches against an assortment of versions of python and databases. Matt Croydon and I are going to be … Continue reading →

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Acorn

Posted on September 13, 2007 by Joe

Gus released Acorn earlier this week, which I was incredibly glad to see released into the wild. For one thing, I think Gus was starting to seriously loose it – talking to himself and even interviewing himself… But seriously, I’ve … Continue reading →

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Economics…

Posted on September 7, 2007 by Joe

It seems strangely coincidental that last night I spent reading this and that about economics. Mike’s article was about a variety of topics, but he managed to keep some sort of “Adam Smith’ central theme to his current ravings. I’ve … Continue reading →

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Nice Django/Dojo (Ajax toolkit) tutorial

Posted on September 5, 2007 by Joe

While out perusing bookmarks and randomly following links, I stumbled across a nice “from the beginning” Django tutorial that includes a little bit of Ajax with the Dojo Toolkit. There’s also a Part 2 to the example, and I think … Continue reading →

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storing electricity

Posted on September 4, 2007 by Joe

The article at Ars Technica about a supercapacitor battery really caught my eye. Storing electrical energy is one of those age-old problems that ti seems we’re looking for answers to in both large and small systems. According to Wikipedia, a … Continue reading →

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Viewing the night sky

Posted on September 1, 2007 by Joe

I was listening to a podcast from NPR the other day – one of the “Science Friday” episodes where they talked about camping and reviewed a book called Camp Out!: The Ultimate Kids’ Guide. The book sounds fun (I’m thinking … Continue reading →

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