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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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Shared Links from Google Reader Permalink

A big mix as usual but a lot of Middle East Ones!

  1. Wubi Arrives: a Look at Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 5
  2. Saudi men arrested for 'flirting'
  3. Palestinians 'may declare state'
  4. Ahmadinejad Imam row grows
  5. Israeli MP blames quakes on gays
  6. Iranians urge Dutch to ban film
  7. Iran guards predict Israel demise
  8. New Material Can Selectively Capture CO2
  9. Pleas for Saudi 'witch' to be saved
  10. Williams in synod Sharia address
  11. No more bridge tolls
  12. Carey weighs into Sharia law row
  13. CUBS AND BEAVERS PLANT TREES
  14. Controversy Over Wikipedia's Use Of Muhammad Image
  15. Bionic Arm Might Go Into Clinical Trials
  16. Vista SP1 Released to Manufacturing
  17. Good food 'boosts earning power'
  18. Pope Denounces Some Biotech as Affront to 'Human Dignity'
  19. Gunfire at Israeli embassy
  20. Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2008-02-26 22:06:07.
Categories: Internet, General, Politics, Software
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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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Firedrop2 Plugin - Show Google Reader Shared Items Permalink

This a quick plugin for FireDrop to share your GReader items in your blog. Requires the rather cool FeedParser. Remember to change the URL or you will be sharing my items!

# Plugin: Grab Google Reader items
import feedparser

class GRSharePlugin(object):
    button_text = "GR Shared Items"

    def OnClick(self, mainframe):
        d = feedparser.parse("http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/14887738374122955936/state/com.google/broadcast")
        entry = mainframe.active_entry
        entry['body'] = entry['body'] + '<ol>\r\n'
        for item in d.entries:
            entry['body'] = entry['body'] + '<li> <a href=\"' +  item.link + '\">\r\n'
            entry['body'] = entry['body'] + item.title
            entry['body'] = entry['body'] + '</a>\r\n'
        entry['body'] = entry['body'] + '</ol>\r\n'
        mainframe.editor.SetValue(entry.tostring())
        mainframe.SaveCurrentEntry()

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2008-01-07 22:10:22.
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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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Lifespring! Family Bible Daily Audio Gadget Permalink

Here's another Google Gadget for Lifespring - this fits into your personalised homepage. The schedules starts again on the 10th January.

To help create this and the Google Calendar for LFB, I used IronPython to download the podcast entries and the CPython Interface (with regular Python) to create the Calendar entries.

Click the button to add to your Calendar!

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2008-01-05 16:51:10.
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Google From An iPAQ Permalink

I have been using my iPAQ a lot lately. Mainly, it is as portable web browser. So nice. So silent. Google have also completed a lot of updates including the stand alone Maps application.

GMail mobile has been updated, probably targetted at smartphones though attachments don't seem to work. Reader works excellently though I have one niggle with it. Quite cool to be able to share a story with a tap of the stylus (I'll sort this blogs template shortly!). Calendar works well too and I've given up on the built in PDA features even with all the addons I have.

The mobile versions have some shortcuts built to the phone pad numbers (my iPaq has no keyboard) but sadly these do not work with the onscreen keyboards. Possibly worth a try in Opera. Anyway definitely looking forward to a Google phone!

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2007-10-10 20:43:45.
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Bombs Permalink

Yes, Carnoustie has UXB's. These second world war leftovers appear on the beach from time to time. There was also a controlled explosion tonight - I missed it by about 15 mins but there's probably not much to see.

To think of the amount of time I spend on that beach... how close have Dandy and I been...

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2007-10-03 20:09:17.
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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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Stick It On Your Portable Drive Permalink

Just a shame there is no 'download all' link on this page! Wink Handy programs to put on a USB stick at SnapFiles.com(Link)

PStart is pretty cool. iPod tool looks handy too.

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2007-03-12 13:06:50.
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Finding Stuff on LateDecember.co.uk Permalink

I have spent some time this weekend dealing with problems caused by the recent domain name change and shifting some sites onto Blogger. I am nearly there and in the interest of helping people find stuff I am planning a new homepage for Latedecember.co.uk - meantime this blog entry will have to do. Cool

News Sites * MoodNews * UK Prophecy News

Techie * LDBackup * Python Podcasts * BugWatch

Scottish Town Blogs * The Dundee Blog * The Perth Blog * The Angus Blog

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2007-02-25 20:34:05.
Categories: Angus, Christian, Python, Podcast, MoodNews, Internet, General
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Proof Of God (Link) Permalink

A PRACTICAL MAN'S PROOF OF GOD

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2007-02-18 19:43:54.
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