Last year I partitioned the drive of my aging G4 PowerBook (12in Aluminum) and set it up as a dual-boot Ubuntu/OSX system. I've been pretty happy with this arrangement, but I haven't been using OS X much, really only to do some music with Ableton Live (no ...
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Anarchitect
Just listened to FLOSS Weekly # 49 where they interviewed Peter Saint-Andre about Jabber/XMPP. He talks about being an "anarchitect" because he likes things really distributed. <!-- SUMMARY_END -->
<i>Anathem</i> makes me wish I was a scientist-monk
I'm right in the middle of Neal Stephenson's new tome Anathem, and it's like Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy - it's making me wish I'd studied some kind of hard science or classics, and that I had a bunch of really geeky friends to hang ...
ASCII, Dammit!
I just discovered a little chunk of code that made me laugh out loud. Seriously, a coworker came over to ask what was going on and I had to explain it. In case you're wondering too, the chunk of code is called AsciiDammit.py.
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One of the banes ...
Basic Google Maps with Django
I'm in the process of upgrading a site from Django 1.0 to 1.3 and ran into an unexpected problem. There are a number of pages that use django.contrib.gis to display Google Maps, and these all inexplicably stopped working. These maps don't use any of ...
The Beyonders Probably Run Linux
First off, this has nothing to do with the Marvel Comics Beyonder. I'm talking about the Beyonders from Iain M. Banks' awesome space-opera The Algebraist. You can read some excellent reviews elsewhere that will describe the story better than I can. Most of these focus on the Dwellers, which ...
Hello World!
Yep, I've decided to start offering up my own two cents to the blogosphere. Like pretty much every other blog out there you'll find my observations on the media I consume, some local issues, etc.
This blog is also a vehicle for me to tinker around with Django ...
blue moon
So once again we didn't make it to the Rose Parade even though we live only a couple blocks away from it. Too much fun last night ringing in the new year to raucous Polish dance music, talking into the morning, and staring at that beautiful argent blue moon ...
Capitalism...
...is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all.
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Celery in a virtualenv with Supervisord
I'm using the combination of Celery and django-celery with RabbitMQ to do background video transcoding of videos uploaded to a Django web site. I use Supervisord to keep my gunicorn processes running, and I wanted to use to keep Celery running too. Unfortunately, it didn't work out of ...
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