This morning I saw a can of beans in a new light. Last night my buddy Sean had slapped the sticker on and I didn’t think much of it. Today, I noticed it is an insightful summary of the election results and the intelligence behind them.
On a more positive note, a couple of […]
Today’s top presidential story from the BBC focuses on comments about lipstick.
The controversy began on Tuesday after Mr Obama said his rival was advocating change while pursuing the politics of the current Bush administration.
Mr McCain’s campaign accused him of smearing running mate Sarah Palin.
Mrs Palin joked last week that lipstick was all that separated a […]
Putin made comments today to the effect that the Georgian attack on South Ossetia was a US orchestrated event to assist a political candidacy.
He’s not the first to say this, and it’s not unreasonable. Did you know that the US has been arming and supporting the Georgian leadership? Did you notice how McCain’s […]
Admiral Mullen says it would be stressful to go to Iran. Maybe unpredictable what would happen.
It has been clear for some time that Adm Mullen does not want to attack Iran, but his latest remarks suggest that he is fighting hard behind the scenes for both the US and Israel to think carefully about the […]
The bullion value calculator I created using Google App Engine now allows you to login with your Google Account. If you sign in and enter some values, it will store them. The next time you visit, the values you entered will be populated. If you enter new values, those will be the ones […]
Listen to the optimists arguments and listen to Schiff’s arguments. This is a good battle from July of last year about the state of the economy and what is going to happen.
Apparently there’s a memcache problem with Google App Engine. Renaming my memcache key caused my app to work.
This is all in reference to my post a few days ago where I mentioned my Google App Engine Bullion Value Calculator.
Update 2008-06-17: The problems came back, so I surrounded the problem spots with try/except blocks and […]
Two pieces of excellent news today that are very encouraging.
One: the Supreme Court ruled (pdf) that the executive and legislative branches might actually be bound by the US Constitution. And that the Constitution means what it says when it says “the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended” and that the Constitution might say […]
A couple of weeks ago I went to a Python meetup and went through some of the Google App Engine tutorial. It wasn’t long before I started making a tool that I’ve looked for but haven’t found. The tool probably exists somewhere, but I took the opportunity to make the simple tool and […]