So it’s finally live! I’m talking about the Google Summer of Code, a program whereby Google spends $$’s via open source foundations (such as our own Python Software Foundation) to students in exchange for code. I’m happy to see this project actually happen, and I hope it’s successful for all involved. I [...]

Install feeddemon 1.5 trial (still trying to figure out an alternative to bloglines)
Enable the bloglines synchronization feature
Decide the keyboard navigation still feels awkward, and still don’t like having to read blogs in the websites (not as fast as bloglines’ “everyone looks the same” model).

Go back to bloglines, and notice [...]

How do you turn off accesskeys in Wikipedia? It’s a real bother, and a quick glance at the code doesn’t show a simple way to turn it off for the two most obnoxious uses, Alt-E (which trumps the Edit menu selection in Windows) and Alt-F (which does the same for the File menu).

My hard drive is very unhappy, which means that I can’t do any of the experimental hacking I was hoping to do on the plane on the way back tomorrow.
It’s fascinating that having a drive that causes the OS to complain (mildly but scarily) when lots of new files are created has basically [...]