Monthly Archives: April 2008

Das Rad (The Rock)

I’m work­ing on a short story about dif­fer­ent per­spect­ives over a long period of time at the moment, as was boun­cing around the inter­webs for inspir­a­tion when I came across this little gem from the 2003 Academy Awards for short films. It didn’t win, but it clearly deserved the nom­in­a­tion.
There’s a higher res­ol­u­tion ver­sion (def­in­itely

Notes From a Small Internet

Beautiful Soup is a great little Python mod­ule that will read just about any HTML page and give you back a struc­tured parsed tree. It’s awe­some because you can pass it just about any mangled markup — I’ve never known it to choke on any­thing. For some web ser­vice con­sumers I’ve had to write over

Google’s AppEngine Beat Me To It

Recently I’ve been put­ting some time into writ­ing a data­base adapter for Django that uses Amazon’s S3 and SimpleDB ser­vices as a stor­age layer, whilst try­ing to retain as much of Django’s QuerySet func­tional layer as pos­sible. The gen­eral goal is to provide a stor­age back-end for Django that isn’t depend­ent on the tra­di­tional vertically-scaling

View from my Garden

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View from my Garden, ori­gin­ally uploaded by iamseb.

You wouldn’t think this is April, rather than January.

View from my Bedroom

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View from my Bedroom, ori­gin­ally uploaded by iamseb.

Finally, snow in London!