The logistics of having children

So currently, mostly through habit, we signed up Jaan and Aisha to both Soccer and Baseball this year. That’s not normally a bad thing, as baseball tends to be done around mid-June and Soccer is usually just getting going by then, so there’s been little overlap for the kids, historically. For baseball they’re both in [...]

Twisted Python and Chunked Encoding

When I was first writing a little web service in Twisted Python that would return JSON encoded data, and I was having some issues with loading it up using Javascript, I used Wireshark to trace the whole thing and was surprised at how the response looked. There were delimiters around the data, and the response [...]

Humour in manpages

I just discovered surfraw in the results of an apt-cache search (love that command) and I had to laugh at the manpage: DESCRIPTION Surfraw provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power. It reclaims google, altavista, dejanews, freshmeat, research index, slashdot and many [...]

Dual-screen hack with x2vnc

I have two LCDs at work from having both a Windows and Linux PC on my desk. I need both right now due to some inane dependence on Windows-based process tools that were not of my choosing, but lets not go there. To keep myself as productive as possible, I really just want to shove [...]

Cross-Origin Requests in Twisted

I’ve just been learning about Cross-Origin Resource Sharing, to permit javascript downloaded from one domain to make Ajax requests out to another domain. I started learning this because I was writing a Google Maps client to test some back-end code and it wasn’t working for some reason. Thanks to the help of someone on the [...]