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As the Christmas Day festivities wound down and we settled into a quiet afternoon together, Liz asked me a question:
“Did you get what you wanted for Christmas?”
My thoughts flickered quickly across the warm and happy morning spent with my beautiful wife and daughter, singing songs, opening presents, cooking breakfast together, playing with the cats. […]

I haven’t been posting much lately because I’ve either been too busy to write anything or too not-busy to have anything worth writing about. So here’s a quick recap of what I’ve been up to, in more or less random order.
I’m thinking of moving our blogs to private hosting on WebFaction, partly because I […]

I’ve been looking for a decent chart or graph library lately for a soon-to-be-hatched personal project, and been largely disappointed by the state of what’s available for Python. The freely available choices all felt a bit clunky to me, either in usage or in output (or in some cases, both), and the strongest contender […]