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Unicode in Python, Part 2: Flipping Tables Part two of how Unicode works: this time, I actually tell you how to use it! 2011-09-28 04:13:07.101418
Unicode in Python, Part 1: What is Unicode? How Unicode works, and what it is. Read this if you do any text processing at all ever. 2011-04-27 21:36:53.139649
Simple Python Photo Booth Script Here's something neat! A photo booth script using pyGame and PIL to generate images of what the webcam sees! 2011-03-30 19:39:18.461699
WSGI: What Is It, Exactly? I finally understand what WSGI is and does, and I'd like to share it with you 2011-03-13 02:00:22.322587
Collaborative Open Source Books with pyBookBuilder A new project I've been working on, called pyBookBuilder. 2011-03-11 22:20:55.065368
Which Antivirus Should I Use? The always important question: how do I best protect my computer from nasty, nasty things? 2011-02-28 23:06:31.722671
Tablets: I Don't Even Why do tablets even exist? 2011-02-10 16:43:55.924257
Net Neutrality: A Solution What can regular internet users do in case of failure of net neutrality legislation? 2010-12-22 06:14:04.234525
Bringing the Web to Python (again) About the awesome web framework of web2py 2010-12-02 13:32:25.672932
Nailing the Blackboard I can't do my homework because Blackboard is too slow, so I wrote a blog entry about it. 2010-10-11 04:46:49.761000
Uptime! My blog's downtime problems are fixed, and OOM errors are solved by throwing more resources at the problem. 2010-09-27 22:20:35.382966
Uptime/Downtime Why is everything crashing so much?!!? 2010-09-25 22:18:48.698228
Python Error Logging About a quick and dirty logging solution I came up with for logging all Python output to files. 2010-07-03 20:18:25.372393
Macbooks Are Essential For Education A quick look at a very good, educated decision made by a school regarding the technology education it's giving its students. 2010-06-16 03:00:48.701209
Abstruse Goose on Intellectual Property Just a short plug for someone who is much better at stating his opinions than I am. 2010-06-11 03:55:44.110130
dwnld yr tunz Generation-difference cultural mismatch strikes again, from a pretty odd angle. But it's hilarious. 2010-06-06 09:51:29.416738
Google Streetview Lawsuit: Privacy, Oh No! A different take on the lawsuit brewing up against Google because it accidentally recorded unsecured WiFi data. 2010-05-21 00:36:22.725376
Dungeons and Dragons Oh no, Filip has become the ultimate nerd! (Or is trying to) 2010-05-10 22:09:16.132419
Become A Fan To See This Blog Post Having a little fun with the "become a fan to see this" pages on Facebook. 2010-05-03 06:26:40.874269
Earcandy About my crazy surround sound experiment and why and how it worked. 2010-04-05 16:20:37.338356
Oh No My Buttons How to fix the weirded-out buttons in the Ubuntu 10.04 Beta (if you bothered to try it out). May apply to the release too, if the Ubuntu folks don't change it... 2010-03-25 11:05:35.656817
C++ vs. Python: Perspectives... Comparing C++ and Python with regards to semantics and personal preferences rather than pure speed. 2010-03-22 20:31:42.659908
"Everywhere At Once" About the Mozilla extension for Firefox, Ubiquity, and how it's earned its place amongst my favorite extensions. 2010-03-20 03:06:31.128694
Problematic Recursion How infinite recursive loops in my database owned my blog for a little while. 2010-03-19 23:58:43.942712
What Happens When I Have Spare Time Talk about blog updates and database transparency. Hooray, ZODB! 2010-03-15 18:50:06.077952
Trolling Is A Art Too many people don't know what trolling is, and get trolled themselves. Please be informed before using the internets. 2010-03-12 12:41:53
Google Chrome vs. Firefox Let's troll a bit about browser wars! Yeah! 2010-03-05 12:42:43
iptables Port Forwarding, With a Bit Of VPN in the Mix How I got iptables port forwarding working with my weirded setup of networking between my machines. 2010-02-25 06:39:18
EVE Online: PLEX Aid for Haiti About EVE Online's "PLEX Aid for Haiti" program, designed to get aid for Haiti by breaking the 4th wall. 2010-02-16 15:35:14
Good Game; Old game, that is Some very good old games that people should know about before asking me how come I play them. 2010-02-11 08:39:56
Xsplash Shiny Boot Screen About Karmic's new splash screen to replace the old, clunky Usplash. 2010-02-03 23:15:44
Webcomics - Comics On The Web! I'm bored, so here's a rant about webcomics, and the list of the ones I read regularly! 2010-01-28 18:30:20
Python Is Faster Than C++: An Objection All about how I was wrong in my last entry about how Python is faster than C++ 2010-01-24 19:59:49
Python Is Faster Than C++ According to a firsthand test I performed, Python is faster than C++ at using a bubble sort to sort a list of all of Ubuntu's system files. What is this? 2010-01-24 10:12:19
Acer Aspire One: A Review fsufitch reviews his first netbook owned, an Acer Aspire One. 2010-01-18 17:37:44
The Blackshell Ship Log I have a new blog! About EVE Online! Isn't that exciting? 2010-01-17 06:29:33
Microblogging My new endeavour to speak into the chaos of the Internet. 2010-01-17 05:14:28
Site Theming Issues: Part 2 Issues theming my site continue, as I introduce a new dark theme, and discover that it only works perfectly with Firefox. 2010-01-10 03:25:04
Site Theming Issues An effort to theme my site to be both lighter-weight and more user-friendly... 2010-01-09 00:38:18
"jQuery?" - A Query jQuery for smalltime Javascript programmers: worth it or not? 2009-12-28 01:48:57
The Eve of EVE Why EVE Online is special, and why it bypassed my normal restrictions against paying monthly for games 2009-12-22 05:47:47
Tool of all trades Duct tape! Hooray! 2009-12-14 15:37:33
Regex and State Machines How to match strings using two old techniques 2009-12-02 01:08:15
Instant-on Linux: You're Doing It Wrong My unsatisfactory experience with Chromium OS's famed and talked about development release -- after the long compilation process. 2009-11-24 13:58:51
Open Source Gaming: Part 1 How can you game and support open source at the same time?? 2009-11-18 21:14:09
Epic Fail: KDE 4.x My less than optimal experiences giving KDE 4 a try. 2009-11-10 20:28:13
Helping Tomorrow's Innovators Today How a closed source project uses open source software, and how it can give back to the community that made it. 2009-11-06 22:38:13
Slashed and Dotted Surviving an unexpected Slashdotting - a debriefing. 2009-10-30 17:55:59
I Can Haz Virus The epic tale of how I got a virus... on Linux... using Wine... and lived. 2009-10-23 18:26:13
Two Tweetings To Twitter Should I use Twitter for quick broadcast messages of cool stuff? 2009-10-15 18:38:23
Why Ubuntu Fails Why Ubuntu fails at its competition and being a product that people want... and what it badly needs. 2009-10-12 19:51:00
It's Karmic, Duuude... Review of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala 2009-10-05 23:41:50
Open Source... Books? 2009-10-01 16:54:44
Watch Your Language Java, C++ and Python -- Which is not like the other two? 2009-09-30 12:45:14
Book-A-Face! Ever wish you could spend the time you're on Facebook differently? 2009-09-25 17:30:59
An Uninteresting and Hopefully Unique Post Meta-blogging about blog-forum things... 2009-09-21 18:29:50
Introducing the MS Kowtow 2007 Microsoft apparently owns NYU-Poly. What don't they, these days? 2009-09-19 02:42:26
Do I Need Rehab? I have been charged with computer game addiction. True/False? 2009-09-15 05:56:57
Im in ur browser, embeddin my contents About HTML5's new tags: embed, video, and audio 2009-09-13 09:40:13
A First Impression of C++ My first impression of C++ as met in my CS 1124 course in college. 2009-09-11 02:29:12
"I Feel Pretty!" Why are themes necessary/good in a desktop environment? And if having your windows pretty is good, why should you be able to customize it? 2009-08-29 05:38:51
Pretty Pythons No description given 2009-08-25 07:47:31
Build Your Own Python Web Server (plus kitties) No description given 2009-08-24 22:41:23
Ohai, I iz back No description given 2009-08-24 08:16:40
I'm back! No description given 2009-08-20 20:07:49
Long, Long Rant About Blog Upgrades I Hope To Implement (And A Fittingly Long Title To Go With It) Reanimated post #24 1999-09-23 06:50:46
This just in: National Educational Computing Conference proves educational for area high school graduate Reanimated post #17 1999-09-23 05:30:29
Not Neutral About Net Neutrality Reanimated post #23 1989-09-25 06:28:10
Google App Engine - Part 2: A Thousand Ways to Skin a Python Reanimated post #22 1989-09-25 06:13:27
Hackin' Away At My Blog Reanimated post #20 1989-09-25 06:06:38
Stylesheets in Vogue Reanimated post #19 1989-09-25 05:51:03
What's In a Name? Reanimated post #18 1989-09-25 05:39:57
Bloggin' From The Conference! Reanimated post #16 1989-09-25 05:20:07
Google App Engine - Part 1: Snakes on a Jet Engine Reanimated post #15 1989-09-25 05:16:36
ReSTful Sphinx Reanimated post #14 1989-09-25 05:00:57
On Inhuman Friendliness Reanimated post #13 1989-09-25 04:07:18
On Human Friendliness Reanimated post #12 1989-09-25 01:04:53
String Formatting 3.0 Reanimated post #11 1989-09-25 00:56:50
JSON & Antigravity Reanimated post #10 1989-09-25 00:40:40
Facebook Quizzes Reanimated post #9 1989-09-25 00:28:19
Python The Third... Well, almost Reanimated post #8 1989-09-25 00:16:25
Blogging about Blog Writing Reanimated post #7 1989-09-25 00:04:06
Common Sense vs. The Entertainment Industry Reanimated post #3 1989-09-25 00:02:12
A Blog... Reanimated post #1 1989-09-24 23:42:24