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Entries from October 2007

Is an incomplete good deed better than no good deed done?

October 24th, 2007 · No Comments · observation

Long Story. Bear with me. A nice old man dropped into my office, asking if I am “so and so”. I wasn’t. Turned out he picked up a wallet on the street with ID’s in it. He wanted to return it.
I googled the name and found that he is most likely was visiting a client [...]

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41pounds.org and junkmail

October 6th, 2007 · No Comments · simplify your life

Today I signed up on 41pounds.org to have them reduce my junk mail. While you can do this yourselves, they will do it for you for a fee. Part of the fee is donated to an organization of your choice (from their list). Not a bad idea. Let’s see if it works!

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Using pytextile in Django - problem with unicode

October 4th, 2007 · No Comments · django, technology

I am coverting a J2EE application over to django. The existing app uses Textile as a simple markup for user text input. After installing pytextile (which is under ownership change at the moment), I found a problem using it:
The “textile” filter works for strings and strings retrieved from my database, but when I try to [...]

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