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Phew! It’s been crazy busy the past couple of weeks. I can’t believe I haven’t had time to come up for (blog) air since before Halloween.
First of all, I’m happy to announce that after a lot of extra work on the weekends and evenings to get things wrapped up, AG’s new custom photo […]

Between work and Claire, life has been too busy to blog lately. In the office, it’s crunch time again, which means weird hours and sometimes some weekend heroics; at home, we’ve had some rough going with the whole getting-Claire-to-sleep thing.
So we’re giving up on the “let the baby figure out when to be asleep […]

So this link got tossed around our developer chat at work the other day, mostly to make fun of the idea and put down its author, but I find myself intrigued to the point that I can’t stop thinking about it. Why not have a set of personal unit tests?
Let’s be blunt; I pretty […]

I missed the September ClePy meeting because I was too busy helping my wife fork a child process (there seems to be an awful lot of that going around the Python community lately, based on what I’ve seen on the Planet feeds–something in the water, perhaps?). But I hear that Brian Beck put together […]

Hackers Only Originally uploaded by aaronoliver3000.
Once upon a time, some Python developers here at AG Interactive said, “Gosh, we should totally do one of those fancy Hack Day things.” And they went unto their manager, who said, “What excellent timing, I think we should totally do one […]

O’Reilly should totally make board books.
Suggested titles:

The Very Hungry Regular Expression
Goodnight Ruby
The Ugly Duckling’s Guide to Perl
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You C++?
The Tale of Peter Python

Hmm. I could be on to something…

Mood:brilliant

I couldn’t leave well enough alone. Besides making a great photo subject and an excellent supply of desktop backgrounds, it turns out that Claire secretly yearns to be a Livejournal userpic diva:

Yes, there is a full-size version of that last one, in case you feel like reading the entire caption.

Mood:dorky

History Lesson (1997) Originally uploaded by mikepirnat.
At tonight’s (now yesterday’s) ClePy meeting, special guest presenter Brian Fitzpatrick, Engineer Manager for Google’s Chicago office, gave a talk entitled “Google, Bigtable, and Scalable Version Control.” I’d heard a bit about how GFS and Bigtable work before at a previous […]

I was pleasantly surprised tonight to discover that the Harmony folks have a pretty decent pre-set profile for Apple TV, so instead of an evening full of tedious Googling and button-learning, I had everything working in a few brief minutes, and I’m back to one-remote bliss–it even manages to put the Apple TV to sleep […]

I’m sort of stuck on AT&T; for internet access (after they clobbered my nice Speakeasy hookup), which means I get the wonderful benefit of “AT&T; Yahoo” services. Mainly this means that I get extra “AT&T; Yahoo” banners slapped on any of Yahoo’s services that I happen to be a member of. I […]