4 entries filed this month:
To real people - do not use this email address. Automated mail harvesters will pick this up and start sending spam to it fairly quickly; I'm curious to see how long before I receive the first message. This post published 08:47 on August 30 2009.
I did this a few years ago and it took less than eight hours, and to this day I still receive tons of spam to that address (all of it forwarded to Spamcop).
Noted today in Juan Cole's informative journal:
If Karzai is so widely suspected of stealing this election, why is there not the same global reaction against him as there was against Ahmadinejad in Iran? Is there an unwritten rule that allies of the West get cut some slack? Juan Cole, Informed Comment
The folks at mems-exchange.org released a new version of the Python web application / site-management framework QP and supporting packages.
All of today's released packages support Python >= 2.4, which includes Python 3.1.
They also released an update to Durus, a compact and mature Python object database (which at its core operates like a minimal ZODB/ZEO work-a-like). The API to a Python object db is simply Python.
Key-value databases appear to be in vogue these days. Python developers with an interest in key-value databases may want to check out Durus (or ZODB): the key-value database you already know, and more.
More means more than key-value pairs and simple types. More means virtually any Python object / type. More means more than simple string or integer keys and simple values and offers not only persistent dictionaries but also persistent lists and sets, and persistent objects of most any design you may wish to implement.
Durus has no other package dependencies and is compact. Weighing in with less than 5000 lines of code it small enough to read in one sitting if you want to see how things tick. Or you can just dive in - start a server durus -s and a client durus -c and play.
Tory MP breaks ranks on HST: [Federal Conservative Party] Bruce-Grey-Owen-Sound's Larry Miller at odds with Flaherty over merits of Ontario's controversial move (Globe and Mail).
B.C.'s mostly "conservative" premier Gordon Campbell ought to note:
Former Saskatchewan premier Grant Devine, who harmonized sales taxes in 1991, was defeated in the next election by the New Democrats, who split the taxes up again.