“Well, the Devil made me do it the first time/ Second time I done it on my own.” Billy Joe Shaver, “Black Rose”
Never got around to the last couple of weekly updates. There wasn’t much of interest, technology-wise, and they burned the hell out of me …
read more“There’s no sense in a man picking out the worst name he can find for everything.”
Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest
On Wednesday, I attended the NH UPA presentation on focus groups. I spent a lot of the time wondering about the effect of group dynamics on end …
read moreNot much changed from last week, mainly working to push the social networking site out the door (while working on a proposal for another Django/ Pinax project). This week did mark the first time I actually got a Fabric script working (not that it’s hard, just that …
read more(idea cribbed from BERG, week count done by Wolfram Alpha because I am too lazy)
“[T]he beauty of reading a page of de Selby is that it leads one inescapably to the happy conclusion that one is not, of all nincompoops, the greatest.” The Third Policeman*
Mix …
read moreIt’s strange what you can get used to: the current social network site I’m working on has a page with 216 database queries on it. Used to be I’d get the hives if I hit a dozen queries on a page.
“216! Did you know …
read moreWhen I’m working, even in a language I know well, I often search for how to do something; either because I don’t know or because I feel there’s a better way (as @ed_atwell says, “I don’t know, but I bet my friends …
read moreMy favorite thing about the game is the harmonizing and the way it increases the feeling that you’re really in a band, but if you’re all about the score (or bereft of friends), feel free to take advantage of these two pieces …
read moreThis is the first in what promise to be a number of “Stupid Django Tricks” where the “stupid” is me and not Django. I was having a good deal of trouble creating unit tests for authenticated views (i.e., pages that require …
read moreBob Montgomery is doing the color for today’s Red Sox game and I can’t figure out how to feel about it. Monty and the late Ned Martin were the voice of the Red Sox (on WSBK TV38) when I was growing up and …
read moreWhy doesn’t Rock Band allow you to create additional cities and venues? Nothing fancy, just the ability to set a city name and country, then create some venues. Venues would just let you select from the existing arenas and clubs1 …
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