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Aug 31st 2004, 15:34 GMT

I have three spare Gmail accounts again. Place a comment below if you want one. First come, first serve.

Aug 31st 2004, 08:30 GMT

Izzle! Izzle pfaff! > Slowly I Turn:

[Quote] The wife and I mourned the terrible turn of events by going to the IMAX theater to see the most recent Harry Potter movie, which featured Gary Oldman eating his own face, as he does so well. The movie also contains some hilarious scenes where the young fellow playing Harry attempts to conceal his prominent, embarrassing erections, which is somewhat difficult when they are apparently six feet tall. I can’t wait for the next movie, which I assume will have a scene showing Hermione shaving her upper lip. On the IMAX screen, it will almost certainly look like wheat being harvested. [Quote]

Aug 30th 2004, 06:09 GMT

Ladies and gents, it’s my pleasure to be the first (around here) to give a big “thumbs up” and my best wishes to one of the G-Blog.net mod crew:

Hooloovoo, one of the G-Blog.net moderators, repeated beta tester of my numerous crappy projects and alltogether very nice guy, became a daddy last night @ 3:32 am! :) His wife Jenny gave birth to Justin Douglas Belknap, and I wish all three of you all the best in the world. Congratulations, and may the times to come be as great for you as the moment you first held him.

Many Bothans died to bring you these news. Thanks to Chutta for keeping us up to date.

Aug 29th 2004, 16:38 GMT

Unicode for Programmers – Python:

We now come to the most puzzling aspect of Python’s Unicode support. Attempting to print a Unicode string causes an error.

Yeah, I noticed. I really was at a loss. "UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'xa3' in position 1376: ordinal not in range(128)" isn’t too telling (at least not for me). Gladly, I’ve found out what was wrong by now. :) My new mini project is doing the whole Unicode shebang, and I learned quite a bit so far, both Unicode and Python stuff.

Good tutorial, by the way.

Aug 27th 2004, 09:52 GMT

Forbes.com Best of the Web:

[Quote] BEST: The revival of a formerly-highflying brand says comforting things about the state of the economy.

WORST: The site lets you subscribe to RSS feeds, a complicated, XML-related way of reading news which doesn’t serve much purpose here. [Quote]