Bad Day

I was going to tell you all how bad my day was yesterday. But I don’t care anymore. Because I have just acquired some tickets to the Rugby Super 12 semi-final between the Waratahs and the Brumbies taking place this Saturday evening.

Woo, and furthermore, hoo.

Overheard on the Radio

Overheard on the Triple J breakfast show this morning. The presenter Adam Spencer was interviewing Shannon from Cockatoo, Victoria, their eleven year old punk "correspondent"

  <Adam>Have you got a pet?
  <Shannon> We’ve got five chooks, a dog and a cat
  <Adam> Which one is the most punk?
  <Shannon> Er, the cat
  <Adam> The cat, and what is the cat’s name?
  <Shannon> Fluffy

Dedication

We went to lunch with some friends yesterday. The gentleman of the couple (we will call him "Chris" to conceal his real identity) is a definite gadget bloke.

He has classified his seventeen gigabyte MP3 collection in every way imaginable. He has catalogued it in a database. Admittedly it is only Microsoft Access, but its appropriate to the requirement.

Satisfied with this endeavour he has now undertaken a new task. He is collecting the top forty singles from every chart since they were first published in 1952. So far he has got all but about twenty tunes, and most of those are from the 1970s, bizarrely enough. Before we commit Chris to the loony bin he so surely deserves I have only one request, that Mr Molland gets to meet him. Because Matthew won’t believe that there is another pop fan around who is more in need of help than he is, the sad seventies throwback.

Hot Off the Presses

This is what I do in my spare time;

PythonCard release 0.6.6 Announcement

PythonCard is a GUI construction kit for building cross-platform desktop
applications on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Release 0.6.6 includes 30 sample applications, new additions include a
source code editor and a sample for creating flat file databases. This
release also supports the new wxPython 2.3.3 preview for Mac OS X.

All the information you need about PythonCard can be found on the project
web page at:
http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/

The installation instructions and walkthroughs are available on the main
documentation page:
http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/documentation.html

You can download the latest release at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19015

For a list of some of the samples that have been built with PythonCard and
screenshots of them in action go to:
http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/samples.html

A description of each sample is included in the readme.txt file in each
sample directory.

The kind people at SourceForge host the project:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pythoncard/

If you want to get involved the main contact point is the Mailing list:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pythoncard-users

PythonCard requires Python 2.1.x or later and wxPython 2.3.2.1 or later.
wxPython can be downloaded at http://www.wxpython.org/

Philosophy

Courtesy of Stavros the Wonder Chicken and Accordion Guy I tried out Battleground God. Here are my results;

Congratulations!
You have been awarded the TPM medal of distinction! This is our second highest award for outstanding service on the intellectual battleground.

The fact that you progressed through this activity being hit only once and biting very few bullets suggests that your beliefs about God are well thought out and almost entirely internally consistent.

Go on, try it. I dare you.