How Python Decorators Work

The more I use StackOverflow the more I love it. Its rammed full of gems like this: Understanding Python Decorators. In answer to a users question about how decorators work, e-satis has gone way beyond the call of duty and written a full blown tutorial complete with exercises. Its by far the best explanation of [...]

Halloween Python

Seems fitting for today. Credit to rkem’s wife via Reddit.

1955-2011 Steve Jobs

HTML5 – Browser Ability

Doing a quick test of the major browsers (on OSX Snow Leopard) and of the 160 HTML5 features tested these are the scores: Chrome 5.0.342.9b 137 Safari 4.0.5 113 (this is the score I got on Chrome Windows which suggests an older version of Webkit) Opera 10.10 38 (I expected much better from Opera as [...]

Django CMS

Finally a Django CMS that looks stable and well built has been released at: http://www.django-cms.org. It’s sponsored by a Swiss compay which doesn’t bother me one bit (I love ….cheese and chocolate?) but the Americans seem obsessed with the idea of everything being American, tariff charges, protectionism, etc, etc, etc. Anyway – this isn’t a [...]

Seskelohots is Lonely

I have no idea who this is but they commented about 4 months ago claiming to be lonely. They need a hug. I’m the only one in this world. Can please someone join me in this life? Or maybe death – Seskelohots With no spammy links posted I can only assume its one of the [...]

New Mac, Wii and DS

I’ve not been posting in a while as I received a new Wii, DS and Mac over the Christmas period which has kept me very busy – thats on top of working all the hours god sends! I’m not rich – nor is my family. There was a windfall that enabled presents to be bought [...]

AbeBooks UK: Another Netvibes Plugin

I’m loving the Netvibes plugins at the moment and I produced a second one today.  This time I’ve decided to have the body of it as static HTML rather than generating it using the included widget API.  It seems to start faster as a result. The widget is simply a search box for finding cheap [...]

I’m a Ninja

True fax.  Pirates are rubbish.

Keeping Fit

I wasn’t going to post anything about my new blog here because its on a completely different subject.  However, after reading the guy at Piece of Py posted about his fitness programme I thought I may as well too! So apologies if you want something tech related – today is about fitness and health.  So [...]