I haven’t watched Letterman in years. So I missed these “Old Man McCain” jokes of his:

Ok, so I’ve let this “blog” thing slide for quite a while.

An alpha source code release of Python 3.0 was made available this morning. Fire up your compiler and help us test the brand-new version of the Best Programming Language Evaaar.

Last Saturday, the Front Range Pythoneers tackled some Jython tasks.

Updated Since a depressingly large number of people have asked…yes, I got an iPhone. I ordered from the Apple store since I was too beat to stand in line after a few days in Milwaukee.

The magpie has landed—our big patch to enable proper Oracle database support in Django was merged into trunk. Happy day!

When I took the quiz, I never dreamed this could happen:

If that means something to you, then we need your help testing.

Please ignore.

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.

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…

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.

At PyCon 2007, I gave a 30-minute talk entitled “Write Less Code with XRC for wxPython.” Everything that could have gone wrong, did.

The best talk so far: Michelle Levenesque’s “Internet Censorship: A Case Study.” Wow. That’s code that means something.

Really, it’s day 3 since I went to the tutorials on Wednesday. But who’s counting?

I’m about to fly to Dallas for PyCon2007, the community-organized conference for python programmers. This will be my second time there, and my first time speaking.

Sprout.org is back. Did you miss us?

“Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us…”

—Benjamin Franklin