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Entries from November 2005

1980 games: play old games directly in your browser! The memories… (0)




Fairly old (saw it a couple of years ago), but still very cool video.

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Blogging links from digg

November 25th, 2005 · No Comments

I recently started looking at digg for interesting news and links. It has a very cool feature: you store the details of your blog, and then you can post articles from digg with a single click. So I created a low-privilege account here, entered that account info on digg, set the default category to “Linky” [...]

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A remote South Atlantic island, trapped under polar ice, is blowing its top in spectacular fashion. It is the first time that researchers have had a chance to watch an Antarctic lava flow in action.

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the grid game – quite addicting. (0)







XML and XPath in Python

November 23rd, 2005 · No Comments

XML processing in Python is somewhat confusing, mostly because, as in most other languages, it’s still very much in a state of flux. The PyXML library is now part of the standard Python distribution, but it seems to include components from different sources. Another library, 4suite, seems to improve on some aspects, particularly in XPath [...]

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Learning Python

November 19th, 2005 · No Comments

I’ve been meaning to learn Python for a while, so I’m forcing myself to code one of my current projects at work in this language. I like it so far. Being used to Perl, I found the syntax a bit constricting at first, but I’m getting used to it. I like that the standard library [...]

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PowerPoint slides as documents – not!

November 19th, 2005 · No Comments

One of the things that drive me mad lately is the generalized misuse of powerpoint slides that double as documents. It works like this: someone puts together a set of slides presenting a topic, but because the slides will often be forwarded around far beyond the first time they are presented, they have to be [...]

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Price as Signal: an interesting (and, sadly, reasonable and probably true) take on why the music industry wants to have variable pricing on the iTunes music store. (0)