I needed a place to stick this:
Reminder: Itertools variants for functional prg:

• def map( func, seq ): return [ func(x) for x in seq ]
• def filter( func, seq ): return [ x for x in seq if func(x) ]

Excellent. Have I mentioned I love BloGTK? *grin*

Unfortunately for the three people (me at work, me at home, and some random other person *wink*) and 200 robots who hit my site, my Speakeasy router wigged out while we were out of town for the holidays, so the site has been down for several days. Feel free to rejoice; all is well again.

I still hate the moronic DRM crap in Pressplay (now Napster 2.0), iTunes, and all the other music download sites. They make me HIGHLY cranky. I have a cheap, no WMA MP3-only player…I need MP3s. And guess what…I can get them…by BURNING A CD AND RERIPPING. I had high hopes for iTunes; I hoped to be able to burn directly to MP3s on a CDRW. That wouldn’t have been TOO bad. But didn’t work last night. So I (guess, go ahead)…BURNT A CD AND RERIPPED.

And for one song, no less. Perhaps they have stock in the CDR companies. *grin* Did I mention that for all their posturing about security, that I can still get MP3s by BURNING A CD AND RERIPPING BACK TO MP3? Why make me jump through hoops?!?! *sigh*

Man…shopping has Worn Me Out today. And I didn’t even really do that much; I was mostly done. But throw in some other pre-holiday errands, dinner out, etc., and you end up with a darn busy day. I’m definitely looking forward to a little time off!

Cooool! BloGTK installed at work as well…I’m back online!

Oh…I’m liking this blogging easiness again. One of the reasons I like blogging is to be able to easily throw up some links; “check this out”s for everyone else, “don’t lose this”s for me. But when the perceived difficulty/PITAness of creating a blog entry exceeds the value of said entry…my output goes way down. You lose (all 3 of you *grin*), and more importantly, I lose. Searching my entire site (blog, online wiki/notebooks, etc.) for links is easy, and the site is available from anywhere, unlike my scattered bookmarks.

Enough ranting. (this is fun again, though!) The link(s):

• Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia (Cory Doctorow)

This entry is directly from Blogtk. Let’s see how it flies…wow. That worked! (Heh…I feel like Dave Winer here, with a running dialog as I work along).

Kimbro Staken’s post WRT OOP is interesting, though I agree with one of the commenters; the referenced article IS a prank, isn’t it? Please tell me it is. But more importantly, Kimbro’s example xpath python code using libxml2 got me to check and see if it has been deb’d yet…yup. Cool!

OK…BloGTK officially rocks. I was thinking of writing something similar…I now need to find another project. I’m installing this at work tomorrow. I had some problems connecting at first, but a quick debugging session (BloGTK is pyGTK-based, so I could see the code easily enough) showed me that my Zope weblog toolkit had an capitalization error in it’s handling of the Blogger/Metaweblog API (‘blogname’ instead of ‘blogName’; raised a KeyError). Fixed that, restarted Zope, and no worries since. Excellent!!!!

Test post through webform…test update through Byline. OK…now update through BloGTK.

LUFS: LUFS
enables you to mount into your file hierarchy a remote computer’s
file system, which is accessible by various means (ftp, ssh,
etc.). Then, the access to the remote files will be completely network
transparent.. — There’s now support for implementing LUFS filesystems in pure Python. Kewl.