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Archive for May, 2009

Full tilt at the center of the earth

Sunday, May 31st, 2009 Posted under books, Faulkner. | Comments Off on Full tilt at the center of the earth

It was cold that morning, the first winter cold-snap; the hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost and the standing water in the roadside drainage ditches was skimmed with ice ... Read more..

Slides from FluidDB talk at PGCon

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 Posted under me. | Comments Off on Slides from FluidDB talk at PGCon

Here are the slides from my talk on May 22, 2009 at the Postgres Conference (PGCon) in Ottawa. The video will be available soon. The design, architecture, and tradeoffs of FluidDBView ... Read more..

Talking at Postgres Conference (PGCon) in Ottawa

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 Posted under me. | Comments Off on Talking at Postgres Conference (PGCon) in Ottawa

Here's just a quick note to mention that I'm talking at the annual Postgres Conference aka PGCon. The talk is titled The design, architecture, and tradeoffs of FluidDB, and is ... Read more..

A mixin class allowing Python __init__ methods to work with Twisted deferreds

Monday, May 11th, 2009 Posted under deferreds, python, twisted. | Comments Off on A mixin class allowing Python __init__ methods to work with Twisted deferreds

I posted to the Python Twisted list back in Nov 2008 with subject: A Python metaclass for Twisted allowing __init__ to return a Deferred Briefly, I was trying to find a ... Read more..

Balcony music

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 Posted under music. | 41 Comments »

Today I discovered the wonderful Grooveshark and some thoughts occurred to me that I feel like writing down. I haven't spent much time thinking about rights over digital media, downloading, etc. ... Read more..

The first loud ding-dong of time and doom

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 Posted under books, Faulkner. | Comments Off on The first loud ding-dong of time and doom

But not for a little while yet; for a little while yet the sparrows and the pigeons; garrulous myriad and independent the one, the other uxorious and interminable, at once ... Read more..