Jul 25, 2003
Here’s another annoying robot to add to Mark’s list of robots which should be told to go to hell: NaverRobot. This robot ignores the Robot Exclusion Standard and rudely downloaded 200 pages in five minutes. It’s banned.
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Jul 25, 2003
Thirty days before he was supposed to move in, Vic found out that his apartment is to be bulldozed in 60 days. One has to look on the bright side: at least he was given 60 days notice. There are much more severe ways in which … Read more
Jul 22, 2003
Victor Ng: Eeek… India invades my space:
I just came face to face with a product (and a dev team) that I’ll most likely be competing with. I was also told that the entire team is located in Bombay India. […] The demo today wasn’t some shoddy piece of … Read more
Jul 11, 2003
Frozen In Montreal (via Canadians Are Smug): This Asshole just had to be involved…:
It was Jackson who legitimized both Liberian strongman Charles Taylor and his protégé, the machete-wielding militia leader in neighboring … Read more
Jul 8, 2003
So far this summer I have been able to ride roughly 1100km on my bike. True, the odometer reading displays 955km but I rode 150km or thereabouts before installing it. At this rate, I should be able to meet my goal of 3000km before the weather … Read more
I’m not sure whether I agree with Conway’s choice of html5lib over, say, lxml or Mysql for Python over SQLAlchemy; but all the other choices are good. Realistically though, lxml and SQLAlchemy are for full-time developers not scientists who just want results. Good list.
Khtml2PNG allows one to take screenshots of a web page from Linux. It requires an X server, but fortunately there’s Xvfb.
Khtml2PNG allows one to take screenshots of a web page from Linux. It requires an X server, but fortunately there’s Xvfb.