>It’s coming back!!
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>My machines
> Hello. I’m not dead yet, although the current quantity of phlegm etc must suggest otherwise. As I can’t sleep and as I have just reinstalled one of my laptops AGAIN I thought I’d take the opportunity to offer some comparisons of the different machines I’m running and how they compare. There are currently five machines I use daily. Three of them are portable (yes, I’ve been carrying them all backwards and forwards to the office) and two of them…
>MacBook Pro
>This is a little embarrassing. You may remember this. Well, I now have one of the new model MacBook Pro’s. 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4GB 1066Mz DDR3 SDRM-2x2GB 320GB Serial ATA @ 7200 SuperDrive 8X DL Mini DisplayPort – DVI Adapter N0 VGA Adapter No Modem No Remote No iWork Preinstalled No Final Cut Exp Preinstalled No Aperture Preinstalled No Logic Exp Preinstalled KYBD/User’s Guide -B Country Kit-GBR What happened to the old one? Well there was an ……
>Calvados Lamppost III
>We have a cat. For people who know us this may be a surprise. I love cats and Akemi doesn’t. I also am/was allergic to cats. But we now have one. We had a holiday in Normandy in August and I noticed then I wasn’t sneezing when playing with the landlady’s cat. So far I’ve not sneezed once since Calvados came home (or even when I visited the cat home). Alisa loved playing with the cat in Normandy and as…
>This cartoon wrote a sweary word on your toilet wall
>I don’t normally blog cartoons but this one made me pause for thought and laugh.
>Django – Named URLS Gotcha
>A post in two parts. First of all – thanks to Magus on #django for pointing out one of my errors to me. I’ve been working through Practical Django Projects over the last couple of days and it talks about having named urls. Take a look at these three one liners: # from urls.links.py (r’^$’, ‘archive_index’,link_info_dict, ‘coltrane_link_archive_index’), # from urls.py (r’^weblog/links/’, include(‘coltrane.urls.links’)),# In my template I get the url using {% url coltrane_link_archive_index %} We give our view a name…
>NewForms Admin – Flatpages
>Practical Django Projects (Chapter three), talks about defining an admin interface which is all well and good unless you’re using the NewForms Admin branch (which is intended to become part of Release 1.0). So if you’re an early adopter or reading this after the big change, you’ll be needing to do the following. The reason I bothered writing this was I couldn’t work out how to override the fact that FlatPage had already registered a ModelAdmin (try to register yours…
>Postgres – Converting Encodings
>I’ve run into a number of problems recently with dealing with old databases of ours which are encoded with LATIN1. Now, with postgres 8.3 (maybe before) you’ll get a message if you try to create LATIN1 saying something like createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: encoding LATIN1 does not match server’s locale en_US.UTF-8DETAIL: The server’s LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding UTF8. I got bored trying to work out why – it seems to be that postgres now prevents what it shouldn’t have…
>Fuel strike: 100 petrol stations reported to have run dry
>The Guardian reports “Fuel strike: 100 petrol stations reported to have run dry”. I’m not sure if that is supposed to make us worried. Doesn’t sound very high to me. According to Wikipedia we have 9,271 petrol stations in the UK. So that’s … er … just over 1%. Come on – we need HEADLINES!
>Rhino on OS X Leopard
>When I was using Ubuntu as my main development environment I used rhino to try and learn Javascript in a bit more detail. Coming back to OS X means that I wanted rhino but had no idea how to install. This is how I did it. If you come across this page and it’s wrong please let me know. I just wanted to get something running. 1. Get the source file and extract it. I used ftp://ftp.mozilla.org:21/pub/mozilla.org/js/rhino1_7R1.zip. Use unzip rhino_7R1.zip…