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TurboGears Gets Presentable

November 7th, 2005 Leave a Comment

Tonight’s ClePy meeting went pretty well; my presentation introducing the TurboGears web framework managed to not bomb and was in fact well received. Some of that I will chalk up to general politeness (thanks to my combination of false modesty and self-esteem issues), but mostly I think it was pretty good. There was […]

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Wine beats bird flu?

November 7th, 2005 4 Comments

Welch’s Grape juice posted this online:
“While we are aware of recent research on resveratrol and the inhibition of influenza viruses, no research has studied the effects of drinking Welch’s 100% Grape Juice made from Concord grapes on the avian flu. Because of this limited information, we cannot recommend the use of our product in this […]

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Hibernating Penguins

November 7th, 2005 Leave a Comment

Partly because I don’t want to lose these links, and partly because David Stanek wanted some advice on getting his Gentoo boxen to hibernate… Here are the two most useful links that I came across, which got me working without any troubles:

Gentoo Wiki: Software Suspend v2 HOWTO
Craig’s Linux Notes: Hibernate

Most important for me with […]

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Adventures in the Weekend Zone

November 7th, 2005 2 Comments

I managed to fritter away Friday night and almost all of Saturday with the skill and grace of a consummate slacker, knowing full well that I had Stuff To Do and that by gum, I was going to put it off as long as I could. I had almost forgotten I could procrastinate so […]

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