As I promised, here is the writeup of Greg Stein's keynote last week at the SDForum Python Meeting. All text in italics are my thoughts. This is a repeat of the talk he gave last year at PyCON. He began with his introduction to python and how he began to …

I attended the SDForum Dynamic Language Series on Python this morning. I'll jot down a few of the highlights here.

Guido and the history of python

The program started off with a history of python from Guido. He had two weeks of free time and wanted to implement a language …

A few weeks ago I blogged about what digital format to use for a journal that would eventually be printed at some indefinite point in the future.

I was deliberating between odt and html. OpenOffice gave me essentially what I wanted, but I thought using a text file instead of …

I've been messing around with some really fun python stuff recently for some stuff I'm doing at work and in preparation for my Pycon talk.

I think I'm finally beginning to understand Paste, and since I like CherryPy, I thought I'd try out Ian's new CherryPaste. And just to have …

I've been blogging for almost a year now and have found it quite enjoyable. Writing is quite therapeutic, and it makes you think about stuff a little more than you normally would. One of my most valuable possessions is a 300 page tome, my grandfather printed a few years before …

My buddy Matt has an interesting post on the problems with OpenOffice. I'm sad that Matt misses what I feel is the most important contribution of Open Office.

I would argue that Open Office along with Firefox are two of the most important and successful Open Source applications for the …

Miguel has an interesting post discussing the merits of C#. This was spurred by Nitesh's email with Steve Jobs regarding the geriatric state of objective c. (While the /. commentary was somewhat interesting regarding this exchange, my thought was "How many CEOs spend their Dec 25th emailing random people asking 1 …

Just saw this post about xGL development closing up. My thought from that post was Novell thinks in house development is better or they don't want to collaborate with others (who are interested in xgl, ie users/developers from redhat, debian, gentoo, ubuntu, ...).

So I thought I'd put my box …

This is the Bangalore Palace. Site of FOSS 2005.

This morning I had a few hours to myself in a jetlagged induced stupor. It was refreshing to sit and watch the sunrise, yet disappointing to realize I had driven to work only to be locked out for an hour. So I had some time to ponder.

Being the visual …