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PyCon 2012!
The main conference part of PyCon, held this year from the 9th to 11th of March at the Santa Clara Convention Center, finished about three weeks ago with the raffling off of an Aldebaran Robotics robot. Sadly, I didn't win it, although I did get a picture of the conference chair carrying it around like a baby.
I'm a little unsure how to sum up the ( Read more... ) -
tool time
Many people have commented on this phenomenon, and it remains an oddity that despite the advanced operating system(s) I run on my fairly advanced new computer (which I will post about when I've got it set up exactly how I want it), I spend most of my time with a text editor and a terminal emulator.
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names on the Internet
(First of all, and mostly unrelatedly: Happy 2012 everyone ( Read more... ) -
gaahhhhh
It's been a busy (busy, busy) few weeks. I've mostly been keeping my working hours sane, but it's still a bit of a struggle to make sure I sleep enough. Let alone do anything interesting enough to post about.
But I've been managing to depress myself by looking up the stringent restrictions on my hanging about here. It's made worse right now ( Read more... ) -
Android Cloud-to-Device Messaging: A Story
(I have appropriated pozorvlak's beware the geek tag for a reason. I hope this is as accessible as his writing on technical subjects)
Why are you doing this complicated-sounding thing?
A little background: at an exciting startup project, we're developing two main components -- a mobile client (a smartphone app) and a server. Currently, we've got an iOS ( ( Read more... ) -
I thought I understood the erosion of privacy, but clearly I was wrong
People are putting more and more private information online -- deeply personal thoughts come out on public Twitter feeds all the time, for instance. And I thought I understood that. I don't like it, and don't like how easily and frequently I fall into doing it, but I thought I had a handle on how common it was and how personal those details were ( Read more... ) -
dear google
Dear Google,
Methinks you need to respond to this, mmkay? Perhaps with a relaunch of a previous platform, incorporating your existing mail, chat, and video infrastructure?
Thanks,
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what the f**k, geeks?
Seriously, WHAT THE F**ING F**KING F**K? Now, I've made a few small contributions to open-source software, and somewhat presumptively claim membership of the extended libre software community. I've been to (and played a very small part in organizing and running) a libre software conference, and I had a great time ( Read more... ) -
*sigh* america
What makes me even more frustrated with the mid-term election results is that I'm not especially surprised by them. Curse you, America, for living down to my expectations!
Posted originally at http://necaris.dreamwidth.org/116849.html (
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comedians :-(
Got back from a fantastic evening (with thanks to palm_of_my_hand for inviting me to it) and, to wind down a bit, decided to watch some TV on iPlayer. Mock the Week popped up on the homepage, and I can always use a laugh, so I clicked on it.
Within five minutes they were making fun of a politician for being fat. Come on, guys, there's so much going on in UK ( Read more... )