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For some background, I've been working with Django for a few years now and for the past year have been a developer on a rather large django application at work. I did a few projects with SQLAlchemy about 2 years ago when I was put on a project whose requirements seemed to imply the need for a database but had no web component. I know of and have used other python ORMs (notably SQLObject), but this post is about SQLA and Django's ORMs, and how I consider the differences between them to be important but also neutral.

Been having a sort of chronic problem with my phone over the past couple weeks where songs would skip. Didn't think it was too big of a deal, but transferring some more music over to it the other day somehow my pictures all disappeared. I take fairly frequent backups, but this caught a few that weren't on the memory card. I checked dmesg, saw end_request: I/O error, dev sdg, sector 48728, and knew that I was probably in for some problems.

After a year or two of incremental updates to gmail and youtube and general software announcements or releases that were not very exciting to me; notably mondrian and app-engine, google has released a torrent of interesting software in the past week that look fairly exciting to me!