Last week we received our wedding gifts delivery and put up a few pictures as mementos of the wedding and honeymoon (sorry Tom, your gift isn’t up yet…). Particularly since I put up new kitchen shelves to accommodate the New Stuff and am basking in the associated masculinity of drilling and spirit-levelling, here are a few photos of no interest to anyone other than gift donors and the irrepressibly curious:
Posted by Andy Buckley on Aug 28, 2007
I’ve been using Python for maybe 4 or 5 years now. On the whole, the experience has been very positive: big pluses include the excellent (although rather stylistically disjoint) standard library; built-in collection types and list comprehensions; the experience, at least, of finding that duck typing actually “sort of works”; and the clean syntax. However, the “elegant” indentation-based scoping for which it’s so famous is, all told, a very bad idea, regardless of what die hard Pythonistas may tell you.
Continue Reading…Posted by Andy Buckley on Aug 15, 2007
Ooh mama - I was just looking up some more info on Colemak, especially to see if my GB layout hack is useful, and found this amazing keyboard linked from this handy forum post. Wow! Every key face is dynamic, with little colour LCD screens under each one, so if/when you update your software keyboard layout, your hardware keyboard changes to match! At over $1500, I don’t think anyone will be getting me one for Christmas, though… but maybe one of these would be almost as good :-)
Oh yes, in other news I got married, spent a lovely 3 weeks in western Canada with my new wife, and met a bear while out mountain biking near Jasper. But you didn’t need to know that, right? Photos will be available once I’ve torn my hair out over EXIF alignment headers a bit more… I’ll get on to that again when I get back from the parallel programming course that’s taking up this week.
Posted by Andy Buckley on Aug 15, 2007
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