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Fallen Tree Permalink

A tree fell down in our nearby park. Oddly it wasn't windy but probably the cold that brought it down, the inside of the trunk was hollow near the base. Thankfully it didn't land on anyone! Needless to say, firewood has been gathered...

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2008-03-24 17:15:26.
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pythonnews on twitter - Follow Follow me! Permalink

Sheesh... I have been busy but I want to do a Python news project (newsletter and podcast plans shelved sadly) this year and I needed a small project that would suit sporadic yet regular short updates. So I have launched a Twitter service called pythonnews - News about the Python Programming Language brought to you on Twitter!

If you want to publicise something Python related just direct message pythonnews or leave a comment.

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2008-02-26 18:21:04.
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Links for 13th January 2008 Permalink
  1. Easily add tags to your Django project with Django Tagging 0.2
  2. Iran nuclear answers 'in a month'
  3. IronPython in Action, ConfigObj and doctests
  4. Babylon will raise again
  5. Indonesian maid beheaded
  6. TREASURE HUNT SUPPORTS BANGLADESH WORK CAMP
  7. Joel said... Ray, I have a few questions. Firstly, what do
  8. US Satellites Dodging Chinese Missile Debris
  9. Firefox Struggling to Compete as Corporate Browser
  10. Stupid Chickens
  11. The paradox of choice
  12. Cloverfield Images Released
  13. Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries
  14. CARNOUSTIE, MONIFIETH AND BROUGHTY ESCAPE THE WORST OF THE WEATHER
  15. Garden of Eden in Nigeria [?]
  16. EU watches for Bush to stumble
  17. Flour shortage hits Pakistan
  18. Mid-East deal in sight, says Bush
  19. Dinner With 40 Atheists
  20. A Light that Grows Greener...Literally

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2008-01-13 14:30:50.
Categories: Internet, General, Fun
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Google Shared Items Permalink

This is a test of a Firedrop2 plugin but -*hey*- this is quality content Cool and the JS in the sidebar can go.

  1. RTM in the Australian Financial Review
  2. Scientists Recycle CO2 with Sunlight to Make Fuel
  3. NEW YEAR TREK DEFIES WEATHER
  4. IronPython and Conferences 2008
  5. UK Moves to Outlaw 'Hacker Tools'
  6. Biblical Scenes As Seen From Google Earth
  7. The UK's Fastest Supercomputer
  8. Islamists blow up Somali colonel
  9. Shell to Grow Algae for Oil
  10. Amazing Wind Turbine Construction Video
  11. Kenyans burned to death in church
  12. Egypt records 19th bird flu death
  13. [book] How to Think Like a (Python) Programmer
  14. Google Products You Forgot All About
  15. Solar Tree Bears Fruit
  16. Web icon set to be discontinued
  17. Home computing pioneer honoured
  18. Malaysian row over word for 'God'
  19. COUNCILLOR ACCUSED OF SELLING TOWN SHORT
  20. Remote Pairing with Copilot and Skype

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2008-01-07 21:53:23.
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Films Permalink

Perhaps watching films with children changes the way you look at them or my suspended disbelief is getting harder to maintain. Today I was really annoyed about the bunch of adventurers who visited the forest moon in camouflaged uniforms on a critical mission to get the bad guys... BUT yes let's take the shiny gold robot without a spot of mud on him to dampen the shine. I am glad I got that off my chest. Thank you.

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2007-08-06 22:42:53.
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Dangerous Online Python Permalink

Careful where you buy your pets ...

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2007-07-13 21:13:59.
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His and Hers Gadgets In The Mitchell Household Permalink

His (iPAQ) and Hers (Nintendo DS).

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2007-03-11 14:21:45.
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Where In The World... Permalink

Are all the readers of this blog? This table is from yesterdays stats...

Top 30 of 38 Total Countries
# Hits Files KBytes Country
1 3906 52.89% 1099 33.01% 22718 25.82% US Commercial
2 1278 17.31% 653 19.62% 8233 9.36% Unresolved/Unknown
3 698 9.45% 481 14.45% 7506 8.53% Network
4 307 4.16% 8 0.24% 149 0.17% India
5 293 3.97% 237 7.12% 7768 8.83% United Kingdom
6 136 1.84% 125 3.75% 2032 2.31% US Educational
7 76 1.03% 74 2.22% 449 0.51% Germany
8 66 0.89% 64 1.92% 19282 21.92% Austria
9 65 0.88% 46 1.38% 191 0.22% Old style Arpanet (arpa)
10 56 0.76% 53 1.59% 615 0.70% Sweden
11 54 0.73% 54 1.62% 349 0.40% France
12 53 0.72% 53 1.59% 1173 1.33% New Zealand (Aotearoa)
13 51 0.69% 47 1.41% 4183 4.75% Australia
14 49 0.66% 49 1.47% 355 0.40% Japan
15 47 0.64% 45 1.35% 281 0.32% Canada
16 46 0.62% 45 1.35% 9674 11.00% Poland
17 44 0.60% 42 1.26% 222 0.25% Italy
18 20 0.27% 20 0.60% 105 0.12% Brazil
19 18 0.24% 18 0.54% 105 0.12% Saudi Arabia
20 15 0.20% 15 0.45% 119 0.14% Argentina
21 15 0.20% 14 0.42% 934 1.06% Netherlands
22 14 0.19% 14 0.42% 972 1.10% Belgium
23 11 0.15% 11 0.33% 74 0.08% Spain
24 11 0.15% 11 0.33% 62 0.07% Mexico
25 10 0.14% 9 0.27% 46 0.05% US Government
26 6 0.08% 6 0.18% 42 0.05% Ukraine
27 5 0.07% 5 0.15% 40 0.04% Colombia
28 5 0.07% 5 0.15% 40 0.04% Hungary
29 5 0.07% 5 0.15% 40 0.04% Turkey
30 5 0.07% 5 0.15% 40 0.04% Yugoslavia

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2007-03-08 21:08:21.
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I Work With a Poet! Permalink

A colleague of mine has self-published a collection of poetry.

A Curly Haired Loss, for a Curly Haired Boy by James Hugh Ferreira Shaw (Book) in Poetry Local writer - "A collection of contemporary poems by James Hugh Ferreira Shaw".

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2007-03-08 20:43:05.
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Make Twitter Talk With Python Permalink

You will need elementtree, pyTTS and a Twitter login. Check their API page for a list of XML's - the sample script reads the public timeline.

import urllib2
import os
from pyTTS import *
from time import sleep
from elementtree import ElementTree

auth_handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
auth_handler.add_password('realm', 'host', 'username', 'password')
opener = urllib2.build_opener(auth_handler)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
f = urllib2.urlopen('http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.xml')

timeline = f.read()
tree = ElementTree.fromstring(timeline)
tts = pyTTS()
tts.SetRate(-3)
tts.SetVoiceByName('MSMary')

all = "Twitter.com <SILENCE MSEC = \"1000\"/>"
for statusNode in tree.findall('.//status'):
    name = statusNode.findall('.//user//screen_name')[0].text
    status = statusNode.findall('.//text')[0].text
    all = all + "<pitch middle = '-10'/>" + name + "<pitch middle = '+10'/><SILENCE MSEC = \"300\"/>" + status + "<SILENCE MSEC = \"800\"/>"
all = all + "<SILENCE MSEC = \"2000\"/>Thanks for listening!"
tts.SpeakToWave("twitter.wav", all, tts_is_xml)
os.system("twitter.wav")

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2007-02-22 20:49:54.
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Dog and Ball Permalink

Blue skies this weekend and, of course, Dandy and I hit the beach.

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2007-02-18 21:19:07.
Categories: Angus, Fun, Photos
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Cool Winter Pictures Permalink

Snowflake and Snow Crystal Photographs(Link) ''These pictures show real snow crystals that fell to earth in Northern Ontario, Alaska, Vermont, the Michigan Upper Peninsula, and the Sierra Nevada mountains of California''

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2006-12-05 13:03:44.
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