Election 2006 needs a little levity.
To: The Right Honourable Paul Martin, Prime Minister of Canada; The Honourable Stephen Harper; The Honourable Jack Layton
Dear Sirs,
We the undersigned demand an immediate cessation of anti-beer comments from individuals running for Parliament…
Visit Rick Mercer’s http://beernotkids.com/ and sign on the dotted line.
It seems the entire Canadian press and blogosphere is going to parrot a certain North Bay Nugget quotation of Paul Martin, in an attempt to grey the line that divides Martin from Stephen Harper:
I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible.Paul Martin April 30, 2003
If we are going to use this quotation, lets be fair and include the entire quotation:
I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible. Thereâs a huge need for front-line medical professionals. Thereâs a huge need for policing. And thereâs a huge need for infrastructure rebuilding.Paul Martin April 30, 2003
I’m no fan of Paul Martin, but neither am I a fan of Stephen Harper, who would have committed Canada to war in Iraq no ifs, ands, or buts.
The MEMS Exchange folks released a number of package updates today. Of most interest to me these days are changes to QP, QPY, Dulcinea and Durus.
For the record, QP is a web application framework designed specifically for applications that use Durus for persistent storage and QPY for formatting pages.
Quixote 2.4 was also released today as well, but I’m migrating to QP for most of my web work these days. Why? I’m using Durus, an object database, anyway, and the Dulcinea package of pre-built components and user interfaces will eventually fully move in the direction of QP as well. QP / Durus / Dulcinea makes building python web apps simple work without requiring that you jump through un pythonic hoops. http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/
In a seperate note, Titus Brown announced that he’s produced eggs of Durus, Windows versions available for the grabbing here: http://issola.caltech.edu/~t/dist/.