Jimmy Page’s obsession with Aleister Crowley and the occult had taken over his life. It was all Led Zeppelin could do to get Pagey half-sober and focused long enough to play.

Original Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett passed away last year. Apparently, he was crazy as a loon.

A mysterious DHL package on my porch today turned out to be a little green wonder.

Last night’s Front Range Pythoneers meeting drew at least 16 attendees…

These are a bunch of sites that I found entertaining, so I hope you think so too!

This is a quick plug for an indispensible web development site, DjangoSnippets.org. If you do agile web development the Django Way, go browse around and I guarantee you’ll learn a couple tips or tricks you’ll want to go implement.

I have never been a cell phone person.

Reality has a liberal bias. What’s a poor bible-thumper to do?

Create his own reality, of course. Enter conservapedia.com, an unintentionally hilarious repository of Republican propaganda in America. Here are a few articles plucked literally at random for your enjoyment.

A wise man once said that if you cannot think of five things you despise about your favorite programming language, you’re unqualified to be its advocate.

I’m a python zealot. But I do take the rose-colored glasses off occasionally. So on the heels of Titus and Jacob‘s lists, here are the Five Things I Hate About Python.

When former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, MD, appeared on the national radar in early 2003, I was hooked. “The Guv” was and is a rare bird: an intelligent, moderate Democrat who saw clearly how America’s potential was slipping away, and would not mince words in saying so. Dean led the rest of the candidate field in saying the Iraq War was a colossal blunder that had made us less safe.

I am jazzed about the OLPC project. As fellow Front Range Pythoneer Duncan McGreggor points out, it’s one reason why Python will rule the world. And Duncan really hits the nail on the head in hoping that the kids who get the funky green laptops will have a formative learning experience the way so many of us coders did when we were young.

Here are the quick stream-of-consciousness notes I used as slides to recap PyCon 2007 to my coworkers at Array yesterday. (reStructuredText is perfect for this task, by the way, and it’s the markup language I’m using consistently throughout this site.)

The notes may not make a lot of sense without me to explain them. So please do add comments or questions and I’ll be glad to elaborate.