Archive for January, 2003
Quickies
GeoURL lets you find out who your weblog neighbours are. (via funkwit.com)
Also, of all the predictions for 2003 that I’ve read, Textism’s have the best chance of coming true.
Creosote Update
Over the weekend I managed to rough out the storage system for Creosote. I also put together a project page for it at creosote.sourceforge.net. I encountered a ‘gotcha’ for novices with the use of the shelve module in Python: it doesn’t track changes you make to mutable objects like dictionaries or lists. [...]
Excursion Diary
Claire and I went out this afternoon to a gallery called 319 Lennox Street, where we found a beautiful watercolour painting from the 1930s to give to each other as a belated anniversary present. The painting is by a Japanese artist named Hokurei Nekamura. Apparently you need to read Japanese if you want [...]
Eat Less, Chew More
I’ve modified the default RSS 2.0 feed for the site [index.xml] so that it doesn’t contain the actual entry data. I’ve done this mostly because I think that sending out a full feed to client programs which only use the feed for the permalink, the article title, and the description is a waste of [...]
Knock
Last night we rang in the new year with poker faces, Vegas style. Despite my best intentions I was down about $5 by midnight, at which point there was a brief hiatus to clink champagne glasses out on the back porch and listen to the suburban revelry around us. The introduction of the [...]