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aquamindy, butterandjelly, and I are embarking on a survey of this year’s various Christmas ales, and being the geek that I am, I am attempting to blog the experience as it happens. All the bottles are interesting–and there are quite a number of them!–so for an added challenge I am photoing each bottle as […]

I’ve been growing progressively dissatisfied with the look of my personal website over the past few months; now that I’ve finally had a couple of days to noodle around a bit, I’ve done something about it. It’s not perfect, and it will probably still need to gel a bit, but overall I think it’s […]

I suddenly ended up with five more vacation days than I had previously thought I was entitled to, so at the urging of both my boss and my wife, I am cashing in on a bit of my windfall today!
The best thing about taking a day off? Really, there are innumerable answers to this, […]

I set aside the time tonight to get down and funky with the feedparser.py bug about it discarding unknown elements. I poked, prodded, sliced, diced, got my hands dirty, figured out what the problem was, and fixed it–huzzah! I had just gotten done submitting my patch back to feedparser’s Sourceforge site, when I […]

I know everyone has had the buring question, “What’s up with Liz?” since I haven’t posted in a while.
Life is super crazy. If you thought I was busy in previous jobs in November and December, well this one tops them all.
I’ve been working for the last 8 days straight. No […]

My first dabbling with feedparser and PyRSS2Gen went so well that I’ve finally worked up the gumption to rewrite the code that pulls my RSS feed from LiveJournal, renders it to static HTML, and publishes it to where pirnat.com is hosted. Minus one annoying bug in feedparser (it discards unknown elements, so right now […]

Tagged by gieves, I humbly submit the deadly and dangerous Meme of the Seven Songs, in no particular order, and with some slight cheating:

Gordon Lightfoot - “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”Still beautiful and haunting despite the number of times NPR plays it on the anniversary of the eponymous tragedy.
Thievery Corporation - “The Heart’s a […]

I should have looked into this stuff a while ago, because it’s entirely too handy and, in a word, pythonic. I will probably rewrite my crufty home-brew LiveJournal RSS parser using Mark Pilgrim’s excellent Universal Feed Parser. Additionally, since I’m not sure if Planet allows easy filtering based on category, and I might […]

After work last night, Liz and I popped over to Mitchell’s Fish Market to join in the farewell party for a friend of ours (Michelle, with whom we recently lunched while visiting New Jersey) who’s been a regular in our little wine group. Never in a million years would I have expected the collected […]

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We’re now back from our adventures in Indiana. Friday was occupied with the drive down (filled with an amusingly punch-drunk loop of “are we there yet?”), and capped off with a bit of prosecco and tasty eats at Agio, which we selected based […]