This evening I attended a SLLUG meeting about deploying django with lighhtpd. I've never messed with lightty before, only heard off hand complaints that it doesn't like python too much.

The perl-esque configuration setup seemed to provide for virtual hosting setup pretty easily (much like webapp-config does for gentoo and …

I've been working mainly with two laptops recently. I normally use ergonomic keyboards with my desktops and was noticing that my wrists were sort of twitching. The solution? Buy a new keyboard. (So I went out and bought an ergonomic keyboard that would work with my laptops (read has usb …

I came accross one of those annoying sites yesterday that refused to serve pages to me because I was using firefox. (Even more annoying since I didn't happen to notice any activex junk). So I told firefox to spoof Internet Explorer. It appeared to work until firefox came crashing down …

Kudos to Google for actually being forward thinking enough to release client software for linux. One problem.... I guess my Thinkpad is a little underpowered for this app. It is way too SLOW! Painful and annoying to use. (Plus the fonts are ugly!) I guess I'm back to google maps …

I was able to head up to my alma matter and attend most of Startup School today. Here's my "gems", I tried to note the themes that were common:

Joe Kraus (Jotspot)

• Persistance Pays - (See Paul Graham below too)
• "No false positives" - Will reject a number of possibly good candidates …

So there's a new "camp". Bootcamp. Come down to Cupertino for a day or two and mix and mingle with a hip crowd of others who want to install web2.0 operating systems on their hardware.... Oh wait, call me when they have XenOfAppleCamp.

Learn with me as I experiment with pyvnc2swf. Hopefully I'll have a short series of howtos on creating a screencast (including mixing sound and that sort of fun stuff). Also, this isn't really linux specific per se, but one of the only ways to do it on linux (on mac …

Here's my recap of Mashupcamp. My definition of a mashup hasn't really changed since the camp has ended (for some reason I thought that it would). I would define a mashup as a webpage consuming non- native webservices (sprinkle liberally with googlemaps) which may be screenscraped or proxied.

One notable …

I recently bought a Thinkpad R52. The first thing I did was install gentoo. So far I'm pretty impressed. The R52 doesn't have fancy features, but it has all the basics. I was deliberating whether to wait for the core duo laptops to come out and just getting a laptop …

One of the session's I've attended was by Adrian Holovarty on Screen Scraping. Adrian (of Django fame) made chicago crime to help the citizens of Chicago. Citizen ICAM, police department site that has a database of crimes but is not user friendly for browsing. Has a pretty bad interface only …