Boing Boing: Public records audit: Some records requests met with suspicion and threats
[Florida] Public officials, ignorant of the law or paralyzed by suspicion, regularly thwart citizens exercising their [state] constitutional right to inspect public records, a statewide audit has found.
Excellent! COREBlog is another (ie, not this one) blogging Zope Product that I bumped into through DeVoe Squared. Not too shabby at all. It’s still pre-beta…needs an XML-RPC interface, etc., but the basics are there, it’s easy to post/edit TTW (through the Web), and the code is pretty straightforward.
A nice product to try out (I think I’m setting up for my group to use at work), and also a nice Zope Product to review for ideas in coding my own (ZP, not blogging tool. There’s enough of those now! *grin*)
has been found again. I recovered my original ICQ number!! 345918.
Boing Boing: Creative Labs’ loss-leading 4GB drive: Creative Labs sells its Muvo2 4GB music player for $299, and includes a 4GB Microdrive, an item that retails on its own for $499. Here are step-by-step instructions for removing the Microdrive (which isn’t soldered on), so that you can install it in another device, such as a digital camera.
EXCELLENT!! I’m probably too damn lazy to get around to trying this, but the idea absolutely rocks.
Uche Ogbuji’s xmltramp and pxdom article at xml.com highlights some very nice Python based xml parsing tools. I’m definitely liking xmltramp; it’s quick and a little dirty, but it returns data using a very Pythonic idiom, which I like. There’s a lot of data out there that xmltramp makes easily accessible. Very nice.
Cool! Bumped into DOSBox today: DOSBox is a DOS-emulator… DOSBox has already been ported to many different platforms, such as Windows, BeOS, Linux, MacOS X…
You can “re-live” the good old days with the help of DOSBox, it can run plenty of the old classics that don’t run on your new computer!
Up to date .deb in unstable! Woohoo! Guess what I’m going home to install!
I needed a place to stick this:
Reminder: Itertools variants for functional prg:
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*
