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Random Embarrassing Ephemera
Last week a colleague asked me to prepare a report from one of our systems as a spreadsheet, so I extracted a bunch of data from the system, made it look presentable, saved it to my desktop, wrote up an email telling her that it was attached, and then attached a totally different spreadsheet that [...]
When you win 5 you get a new house and a boat
Congrats to Claire for winning best Australian blog for the 4th year in a row.
I didn’t vote. Is that bad?
Also, in other news, I’ve been coveting a G5. There’s no chance of getting one of course; but it’s good to have goals… and a rich fantasy life.
Hubbub
For the last week or so I’ve been working on a web crawler written in Python that records and follows XFN links. XFN leverages the ‘rel’ attribute of the anchor tag to allow you to provide a description of your relationship to the person whose site you’re linking to. You can get the full details [...]
Happy Merry
Ok, Ben has shamed me into posting to my weblog; if he can come back from the dead after months in hiatus, so can I ;).
Since my last post ages ago:
Amelia now has teeth and is extremely mobile.
I’ve been listening in on the Python Web-SIG, though it’s been a little quiet just lately.
Farcry is a [...]
A Cacophony of Coughing
Everybody at maison Ditto has a cold at the moment, so the dawn chorus consists mainly of wheezes and splutters. Everybody seems to be on the mend though, including Amelia, who has a habit of responding to any coughs she hears with a hilarious fake cough of her own. I think Claire’s mom [...]
Questions Questions Questions!
I actually had to work today at work, so please forgive the delay with these.
Ben:
Tell me about an embarrassing moment.
Describe the moment when you realised you were an adult.
What fashion era or trend do you reject with contempt and why?
Favorite Legume?
What question do you hate being asked?
Daniel:
What’s the name of that song that keeps playing [...]
Questions Answered
The rules
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You’ll update your website with my five questions, and your five answers.
You’ll include this explanation.
You’ll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.
My Questions came from Claire. First 7 people who request it in [...]
Time is Running Out!
Statistics show that missing childhood toys that aren’t replaced within a 48 hour period only have a 10% chance of being replaced before the child’s 18th birthday. Please help!