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Entries from December 2003

Merry Christmas

December 24th, 2003 · No Comments

Thanks to iTunes and such, making a CD compilation was just that easy.
Everyone have a save and Merry Christmas.
2003 CD compilation:

O Holy Night   - Michael Allen Harrison    
I’ll Be Home for Christmas   - Barbra Streisand  
Joy To The World   - Michael Allen Harrison  
Christmas Is Coming   - Vince Guaraldi  
Winter Wonderland   - Rosemary Clooney  
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas   […]

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recursive juiciness

December 23rd, 2003 · No Comments

def recurseCache(self, path, changed):
dirList = os.listdir( path )
for d in dirList :
d = os.path.join( path , d )
lastMod = getmtime( d )
if os.path.isfile( […]

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iTunes

December 23rd, 2003 · No Comments

I’ve joined the crowd. I signed up with iTunes. What I mean by this is I’ve done more than install iTunes for QT movies.
It started like this. I heard a song off of a movie trailer[311-Amber], googled around, then instead of buying the album or the soundtrack, went to […]

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hacks

December 19th, 2003 · No Comments

I picked up this book yesterday, after sifting through it on safari
I’m finding that I am really enjoying this book, mostly because it is such a blatant collection of hacks, or one offs that you can then combine to make into more interesting bits. It is almost like a Code Depot (blatant leeching […]

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Friday Fun

December 12th, 2003 · No Comments

So my new co-worker has one of these for a seat (the red one to be specific). Well he was shining an apple to eat.. and I said “Hey.. you wanna see something cool”.
You probably know where this is leading.. Turns out the apple got a small dent from the ceiling.
I’m just jealous […]

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strong vs. weak

December 3rd, 2003 · No Comments

An article from the creator of python on Strong versus Weak Typing
This is a good read, and some great views are brought up. I think I find myself agreeing with more often with Guido than not.
It seems to me that python takes the “I shouldn’t care what this is” to the next level. […]

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when it rains it pours

December 2nd, 2003 · No Comments

So I’m delving into some great things at work, and I’m also enjoying python. Here’s the problem.
One is in C# and the other is in Python. This means I get to spend most of my day learning the details of C#, and then I spend the small amount of time […]

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the rare effect

December 1st, 2003 · No Comments

This made its rounds awhile ago, but I was recently transferring some items to my shiny new PGPDisk and stumbled across it. Pretty cool.

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