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Fixing really esoteric and deeply buried, almost impossible bugs, the sorts of things that achieve near mythic proportions for their extreme rarity and ability to induce mass perplexion, is a rare and delicious treat. It brings such a sense of delicious righteousness once the cause of such an elegant problem is understood, and having […]

As of today, I can finally stop beating around the bush about the Giant Scary Project Which Ate My Life, and declare to all the world (or at least that infinitesimal small fraction that reads my blog) that the new AG.com reminders site is live! We saw all those little web-twenny startups having so […]

I’m the last person who should be ranting about this. I just read a public post where the spelling was SO BAD I have to say something. I really hope English isn’t his first language. I’m the first to admit I’m not a great speller (but I’m trying to get better) and […]

or at least slow it down enough to drink sparkling wine.
Things have been a bit crazy in our house. Between work, school, German class, travel for school and everything else, it’s been a bit batty.
The goal for the fall:– pass all three of my exams in November in one try, – turn […]

Bleah. Totally run down. Stressed out, burned out, and all-around fried. But still clinging desperately to life in the hopes that it might all settle down at some point. (It has to settle down, right?)
Thanks to a bumper crop of ragweed, I have spent the last two weeks wanting to claw […]

After a small summer hiatus, Clepy is back and ready for Pythonic goodness.
At tonight’s meeting, I presented “The Joy of Logging”, an introduction to the Python standard library’s logging module and all the various wicked cool things you can do with it. (Okay, so “wicked cool” is relative here…) After concluding my presentation […]

After a very long day in NYC for a wine class, I came back to the hotel, crashed, ordered Chinese and watched a bad movie. After the movie ended I kept hearing popping noises from outside. Turns out it’s fireworks, over the water, that I could somewhat see from my hotel window! […]

Last night was our first german class. Other than the fact they had twice as many people show up for the level 1 class than expected and they now have to split the class, it was pretty good.
I have my hopes up on this format. I especially like the break, go […]

Good: Cleaning office and old e-mail.
Bad: Cleaning old e-mail with weird flash backs.
Good/Amusing: Re-living first e-mails after meeting Mike and having him read them for the first time.
Bad: Deleting them all on accident.
Amazing: Finding the recepit for the bottle(s) of wine that turned me on to wine. It was a 1996 Silverado Chardonnay from […]

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Saturday morning, we’re up bright and early, and off to the Köln Bonn Airport. After managing to convince Continental’s computer systems that Liz isn’t a security threat, we enjoy a long but uneventful flight back to Newark, where we part ways with Anne, […]