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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

I’ve found my Livejournal “friends page” to be increasingly cumbersome as a feed aggregation and reading service. Liz has fallen in love with Pulp Fiction and uses it religiously. PF is great for reading JL friends–since it can remember cookies, one can see all of one’s friends’ friends-only posts. But Liz tends […]

I’ve been totally stressed out by work lately, which means that, at some point, my head exploded and I found myself with a desperate need to play with Photoshop for a while. Thus: a crapload of new LJ icons!
Art of Noise x3
Mike Oldfield x5
Firefly/Serenity x9
Princess Bride x17

Art of Noise(because I had no music-related […]

Now that I’ve gotten caught up on my huge backlog of email, it’s time to close some tabs and share some links, because it’s more fun than doing anything productive. Submitted for your approval:
Chunk Norris Facts will teach you all sorts of interesting things about Chuck Norris; for example, “the chief export of Chuck […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I have occasionally been bored enough or in need of something completely different from my normal mode of being focused on code and servers and misbehaving software. When it gets really bad, I end up staying up too late playing with Photoshop.
A couple months back, I did a few Nausicaa icons; last night I […]