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Any Pythonistas in Missoula Montana?

I will be in Montana again in early July. This year I will have a rental car and thus more freedom than in the past. Are there any pythonistas in the Missoula/Lolo area? Or coding in general? Security? It has become tradition that I start getting my personal game plan for PyCon together. I am hoping [...]

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Sarah’s first Camping

Well no bears this time, and no pictures yet either. We had a fun time at our annual first camping of the year, and Sarah had a blast. The weather was perfect. Everything went great. Josh was a great big brother showing Sarah the ropes and introducing her to everyone. One of the highlights was [...]

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The Hague Decloration

Andy Updegrove has just posted about The Hague Decloration. I received a phone call about it this morning, and I believe it is one of the most important declarations on human rights to come along in quite some time. Please go read up on this. It may at first appear that technology and the standards [...]

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A picture is worth 1000 words!

Steve Ballmers Laptop.

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Generosity of the Python Community

Steve Holden is participating in the 5K Race for Hope. He is looking for people to sponsor his run. Lets show the other groups the generosity of the Python Community! (Sorry Team Hopkins, Steve got to me first ) If Steve is willing to go the full 5K distance, we should be able to support [...]

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Limit Exceeded

Hmm…. I know I should be more concerned about what this says about my internet useage: You have exceeded your 1027.63 gigabyte download limit You have downloaded a total of 1027.67 gigabytes.

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Ray Ozzie, Microsoft and Open Source

I was going to write a reaction to Ray Ozzie’s comments on Microsoft and Open Source. First off this is a blog post which just quotes some of his comments. One must be careful when that happens, and I would prefer to read an entire transcript. Still there is enough context there to work with. [...]

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GitS: The Coming Abomination (in 3-D!)

I was having a decent enough day until this came across my rss reader: DreamWorks Acquires Rights for Ghost in the Shell And another of my favorite franchises gets mutated, warped and ruined. “But it’s DreamWorks and Spielburg“, you say. Exactly. Not only do I get to see something I love destroyed, I get to watch DreamWorks [...]

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Google App Engine: The good, the bad, and the ugly?

I have been holding off on writing this post as I prefer to fully form an opinion. At the writing of this there are almost 600 blog posts about the new google hosted application. Most seem to me to be flailing around the actual core of what this new little beastie is. Some are comparing it [...]

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Randall Munroe Rules!

It’s like someone peered into my 3am brain and drew what they saw. Randall: you forgot the farside chicken perched on the tree, but besides that, spot on! Spot On!!

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