I guess this has been around since the dawn of site aggregation (ala slashdot). I'm just sort of frustrated that my previous post's most valuable and relevant comments weren't posted on my blog but on an aggregator of programming links (reddit). I'm not implying that reddit isn't useful for finding …

So [apparently equality for NaN doesn't make sense](http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-July/330042.html_. (NaN or Not a Number is division by zero, and other other operations that return non numbers, which is different than infinity or negative infinity). That makes sense, but sometimes you want to …

Today, my laptop disk became full. So, I wanted to get the most bang for my buck and not waste my time erasing small files that weren't taking up a bunch of disk space. How does one do that? One way is the command line utility du, but I knew …

Last night I attended the Utah Python User Group meeting. The meeting location was changed to a library in Salt Lake instead of the Mozy headquarters in American Fork. It appears that the more central location was quite a draw since there were some 20 people in attendance.

Jonathon Ellis …

I got a nice 24 inch Dell flat panel monitor for work. Here's the good: * Bright colors (my laptop monitor looks dull now) * Wide (can comfortably browse two websites side by side) * Gentoo made installing drivers painless * xrandr 1.2 is nice * X developers rock

And now the bad: * I …

The last couple of weeks have been stressful, bittersweet, and exciting. An exciting opportunity fell upon me and the end result is that I resigned from SpikeSource and am now starting up a company.

SpikeSource has been wonderful to me, and I've very much enjoyed my time there. I've worked …

I heard the following cover of #9 Dream by John Lennon in the car today by REM. Interesting how a cover makes you appreciate a song more. I don't mean that in a bad way, I actually really liked the REM cover. So I went home and found this. The …

Given that MS is cracking down on poor Russians (which is weird since rampant piracy of their products only serves to promote their monopoly), I would've thought that some open source vendor would jump in to rescue Mr. Ponosov (head of school master in rural Russia charged with stealing software …

How many times does this happen? You come back as a developer to a project you founded? That's gotta take some humility. It's my please to introduce to you Daniel "drobbins" Robbins. Daniel is going to work with the amd64 arch team but will probably venture to other areas too …

They say you know a foreign language pretty well when you start dreaming in it. It's a pretty surreal experience at first. Well, what about when you dream that you are sitting listening to conference talks and the conference is over? (Which happened to me last night) Probably means you …