I am finally free of the tyranny that is virtualenv. Don't get me wrong -- it's marvelous tool for working in multiple Python development environments that all have different requirements. For those of you not familiar with virtualenv it does all these wonderful things:

1. allows you to install all your dependencies without being root
2. lets you have a ( Read more... )

Matt Arnold and I were recently discussing the low numbers of women in the Python, Rails, and Linux communities, an issue that I've been puzzling over for quite some time. I go to a lot of Python conferences in particular, and I've noticed that the ratio of women to men is approximately 1 woman to every 40-50 guys -- and at least a handful of ( Read more... )

I have a tendency to have my phone die on me because I forgot to charge it properly. So I set up a bi-weekly reminder on my Google calendar to notify me by email when I need to do the task ( Read more... )

I've never much been into Twitter -- I barely keep up with my normal text messages, let alone read and post the micro-thoughts of myself and others ( Read more... )

I've had more computer problems in the last week in relation to my server than I can count. This last 18 hours have been spent dealing with DNS woes -- I don't currently host my own DNS, but I hope to after my DNS provider went down last night and still isn't back up. :S This is particularly irksome because I'm on a very tight deadline with one of ( Read more... )

In about 2 1/2 weeks time (July 23-25), I'm going to be participating in the Detroit 48-Hour Film Project. Imagine a weekend of sleepless creativity: teams of filmmakers are given a genre, a character, and a prop and asked to write, film, and edit a short movie in the span of about two days ( Read more... )

I'm currently undertaking my first completely professional web design contract -- not helping out friends for pocket change and favors, not designing for a non-profit organisation, but producing for a local company for a modest fee. I'm happy with what I've done so far, but I'm ready for the project to be done because of the various kinks and ( Read more... )

Scenario 1: you're staying at the Innsmouth hotel and you find your room surrounded by fish people.

Scenario 2: you've just made yourself up some frozen fish nuggets (about the same compositional quality as chicken nuggets, just with some unidentifiable sea critter ( Read more... )

First things first: thanks to help from several generous people, I now have the funds to pay for classes! I can still use a job here and there to help cover semester expenses, but for right now I'm focused on knowledgy-type things. :D

( Hardware joys and OS woes... )

I have one more class to finish before I have my degree (*huzzah!*), and it's being offered in July and August. Unfortunately, it looks like I'm going to be a bit short on the funding, and McDonald's doesn't seem to want me no matter how much I hide my resume...so I'm officially offering myself as a mercenary for hire ( Read more... )