Monthly Archives: September 2008

Calling all Ne’er-Do-Wells

The Evil League of Evil is recruit­ing!
The rum­blings you’ve been hear­ing in the crim­inal under­ground since July indeed are true: At long last, we are seek­ing new applic­ants to the League.
For what pur­pose, I hear you cry?
The best applic­ants, as determ­ined by the League or its des­ig­nated agents, will be included on a spe­cial DVD com­mem­or­at­ing …

Tue September 30, 2008 – 11:25 | By seb | Posted in science | Tagged , , | Comments Off

The Time for Words…

It’s almost October, which means that the spectre of NaNoWriMo looms large across the next two months. Barely a moment will pass over the next four weeks where I’m not plan­ning my novel, or worse — wor­ry­ing that I haven’t yet planned my novel.
I was going to write a work of near-future sci­ence fic­tion, but a …

Tue September 30, 2008 – 0:35 | By seb | Posted in writing | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

What’s the Weather Like on Mars?

 
According to NASA, the Phoenix Lander has detec­ted snow fall­ing from clouds 4km above its land­ing site. Whilst the snow is vapour­ising before it hits the ground, this is a remark­able obser­va­tion of Mars’ ves­ti­gial atmo­spheric pro­cesses in motion.

Mon September 29, 2008 – 22:06 | By seb | Posted in science | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Django Decorator for View Rate Limits

This is a handy little snip­pet that allows you to set rate lim­its for views in Django.

Thu September 25, 2008 – 2:05 | By seb | Posted in programming | Tagged , , | Comments Off