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Happy Anniversary to me!

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I've been thinking about WSGI and CouchDB recently, while on the subject of digital inflexibility. First, I want to clarify a few things about what I mean by flexibility with respect to an application, and how the current crop of frameworks approach this problem. If you want to follow this musing well, I highly suggest reading "What PHP Deployment Gets Right" by Ian Bicking; or just his entire blog, and most of the crosstalk on the web about REST, Web Services, and the evolution of the WWW.

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I've been playing with a few ideas recently, stemming from the perceived inflexibility in my blog software and my inability to develop a gallery over the past, oh, year and a half.

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Most of the past 5 years (chronicled for you, on this site) I've made some kind of attempt at listing something, telling a story about my year, or dodging such responsibility. Last year, I just wrote about some software I was writing. That's what happens when you're actually doing things; you don't take the time to reflect over how little you've done, and you're better for it.

read the rest of "Resolve, Resolute"

Haven't been writing mostly for want of time. Wanted to drop this, for what it's worth.

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Tonight I lit a paper lantern on fire. Heat gathered inside the lantern until it was lighter than air. We all made a wish, and let go. I watched it fly high, high, high into the dark night sky. I wish I was asleep.

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Usually i try to write these titles in the proper alphabet, but I'm too tired and frankly I have no idea where to find a resource for even the most simple Thai phrase (hello!).

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You're a "regular" 21st century 1st world citizen. You have a computer, internet access, maybe a laptop. A cell phone with an address book, an ipod with a few hundred songs. You have a DVR. A digital camera with pictures of vacations, the kids, your uncles; maybe your very own penis/vagina. You are a student; you have assignments, homeworks, a facebook, a myspace. You're a professional, you have reports, emails.

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I have been programming in Python for quite some time now, and I've been doing it professionally for over 2 years. Despite this, I am not nearly as proficient at the language as I could be, probably because I am using it professionally and have to devote time I could be using learning the language to solving problems.

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read the rest of "A Tale of Two Sausages"