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I was able to ask a friend for an invite for a Gmai account, and got one. (thanks bjh).
I know Dave is going to comment on this, but I figure that I should first (after all I got a gmail acct before he did.)
Gmail handles emails and the replies (either by you or others) […]

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Manchester honours Alan Turing
Well, 50 years ago today Alan Turing was found dead in his home, apparently from eating a cyanide laced apple.
Turing of course was most famous for his work in Computer Science and Cryptography during WWII.
There are quite a few places you could start to find out information about him.
On a personal note, […]

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GoogleBrowser V1.01
I just thought this was sort of cool, so I’m posting it. The above image is a map of this blog.

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Just wanted to give a quick update. The spamCheck code seems to be working great. I’ve only had a handful of addresses that I’ve had to add, and a couple of those are because of new things I’ve signed up for.
On a personal setup note, one thing I’ve noticed is that my […]

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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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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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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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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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This article on a recent google update reminded me of an idea.
It is a variant on one-time pad encryption. Basically you could use some subset of the results of a google
search as your pad. Not being the encryption buff that I am I just leave it at this: You’re public key would […]

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More python grit here.
I recently came across this in my reading
Python 2.2.2 (#1, Feb 24 2003, 19:13:11)
[GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-4)] on linux2
Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.
>>> class Spam:
… def doit(self, message):
… print message
…
>>> o = Spam()
>>> […]

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