Yeah, I know. I used "DIY Blogging" in the title of the last posting. Get over it - it's a continuation of a theme. Yes, as I described in my last post, I put together my own blog program, but it's not as big a deal as it sounds ...
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Zines, Personal Publishing, the Nara Handbook, DIY Blogging
When I was in college I found out about zines. It's not like I was an avid zinester, or even an avid reader of them, but I stumbled on an article about them in Whole Earth Review (or maybe the Whole Earth Catalog) and was intrigued. This was all ...
Django 1.0
If you're plugged into the Django universe you've probably already heard it, but in case you haven't, Django reached 1.0 the other day. If you're not plugged in, or if you don't know what this Django thing is, it's the web application framework ...
Django Book in stores soon
Adrian Holovaty and his crew have been working on the Django Book for awhile now. It's been available for free at djangobook.com since (I think) the beginning, but he just blogged that it has finally shipped and is available at amazon.com. I pre-ordered mine awhile ago, and ...
Django broken after Ubuntu 9.04 upgrade
I recently updated my personal laptop to Ubuntu 9.04. Everything went well during the upgrade, and it's all smooth sailing on the desktop afterwards. It's not an earth-shatteringly different upgrade but it's nice and solid.
The only problem is that it broke my local Django dev ...
Django turns 1.2
The Django project released version 1.2, which brings along a slew of nifty new features including the ability to connect to multiple databases, and the "smart if tag", which any Djangonaut will appreciate.
In related news, one of my online homes Dreamhost, posted an entry to their blog yesterday ...
EeePC & OLPC
I got to geek out with my Dad a bit - he recently got an OLPC and was showing it off to us. It's a sweet little machine. Here's a photo of it next to my EeePC:
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The next day there was an article in the Fresno Bee ...
Egypt and Cable TV's Sputnik Moment
Una and I have been keeping our eyes on the unfolding story of the protests in Egypt--we hope that the situation there doesn't get out of hand, and that the outcome is more freedom and tolerance, rather than a return to Mubarak's 30-year-old dictatorship or a descent into ...
Far too often...
...engineers build what people ask them to build instead of figuring out what they actually need and building that.
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Fight Internet Censorship With the Grass Mud Horse
A friend of mine called me recently and told me about a media phenomenon that was sweeping across China and sloshing across the Pacific to hit our shores. It's the "grass mud horse". (Actually, I think my friend may have said "gelassenheit mud horse", which is weird and not ...