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Since I was unable to attend the sprints, my PyCon experience wrapped up on Sunday. Here are my highlights and thoughts on the third day…
Robert M. Lefkowitz (r0ml), the fourth and final keynote speaker for PyCon 2007, completely and utterly amazed me. As the talk began, I thought we were in for 90 […]

Some quick thoughts and notes on Saturday at PyCon that turned into not-so-quick notes as I started writing them…
I was initially excited that Adele Goldberg was giving the day’s first keynote (I’m a bit of a PARC fanboy, really enjoyed Dealers of Lightning), but sorely disappointed that an hour of hearing a lot about the […]

After escaping from the madness of the office, we had a pleasantly uneventful flight to Dallas, notable only in that it was coworker Dave Noyes’ first time on an airplane. I enjoyed watching his reactions to things that had become completely natural and unremarkable to me, and I smiled a little inside remembering what […]

At tonight’s ClePy meeting, I gave a test run of my PyCon 2007 presentation, Dateutil to the Rescue! I got some good feedback (among other things, it’s way too long for a 30-minute slot, definitely the better form of the length-of-presentation problem), and look forward to tuning it up before delivering it in front […]

Not that most of you will care, but… I moved all of my LiveJournal-to-pirnat.com RSS-fu off of my home Linux box and got it all wired up on my Webfaction account, plus I spiffed it up a bit to take advantage of feedparser’s support for etags and Last-Modified headers and generally be less wasteful. […]

Good: Got first big chunk of big project delivered on time and more or less working as desired. Business folks are generally happy with what our team produced in the limited time available.
Bad: Had to miss the holiday party at German class in order to get there, so no Sekt and no […]

Just received the official notice that my PyCon presentation proposal was accepted! I plan on basking in the warm glow of non-rejection for a couple of days, and then commencing forthwith with the stressing out about getting it pulled together in time given all the other insanity of my life.
In other news, Liz and […]

I started poking around the PyCon site today to see if they’d changed the acceptance/rejection date, and after a few moments my eyes strayed up to the site-wide masthead image. “Oh, good,” I thought to myself, “they found a PyCon photo with a woman in it. Oh, and there’s Ian Bicking; hi, Ian!” […]

Well, it’s number 88 in the queue, but at least my proposal for a PyCon presentation is in before the deadline, if only by a few hours. I’d love to be able to present there again, especially since this time my bosses will let me talk about some technically interesting things instead of being […]

Still no time to dig through the San Francisco/Napa/Alexander Valley/Sonoma/wedding photos to find the good stuff, as work and other extra-curriculars continue to absorb all available free time. Hopefully I’ll be able to get to some of that this weekend.
Today’s victory: got the green light from The Powers That Be for the topic […]