Archive for October, 2007


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

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 […]

41pounds.org and junkmail

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!

Using pytextile in Django - problem with unicode

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 […]