I can tell you from personal experience that the following three things do not make you a better blogger:
A nice new Mac Mini (though they are lovely!)
Desktop blogging software.
A catchy blog title.
Because, you know, the strangest thing happened to me: I bought a new Mac Mini, I downloaded a very popular blogging program for the [...]
As the show’s biggest American fan (I hereby claim that title), I was very pleased to see that the New York Times Television section contains an article about Tatort, the weekly German police drama. The series, as the article points out, is almost 40 years old. I’ve been watching it religiously for probably about 8 [...]
Blogging here has been light, to put it mildly! So much for my determination to dig into Django and blog regularly about it: the so-called “Total Django Immersion” I once so positively announced.
I’m in the process of, shall we say, “rehabilitating my online presence.” I’ve begun that process by blogging about a topic [...]
I took off a few days from work during the week before last, so I decided to make at least one day trip. I chose Budapest and went just for the day. The train was EUR 38 round-trip, a pretty great price. The journey lasted three hours each way. I arrived [...]
On June 7, 2008, at 6:00 p.m. Central European Time, the Swiss and Czech national soccer teams started Europe’s big productivity killer, “Euro2008“. Since that night I watched soccer for 14 consecutive nights, sometimes two games per night, sometimes just one. Last night there was finally a breather as they prepare for the first semi-final [...]
I’m repeating myself, but I must say again how nice the weather has been. Next month is going to be crazy in Vienna as it co-hosts Euro 2008. So for now it’s a bit of the “calm before the storm”, so to speak.
Yesterday after work I enjoyed one of the many attractions along the Danube [...]
Spent a while reviewing Simon Willison’s Debugging Django presentation. Asserting False to get exception pages and dropping into pdb with set_trace() weren’t new to me, but pdb.pm() and, most especially, using the test client in an interactive shell were new ideas and very interesting indeed. Check it out if you don’t know what I mean [...]
I can’t say enough about the value TWiD has had for me. Because I haven’t yet had the opportunity to work with Django in a day-to-day professional capacity, it has been easy to let my Django learning slip through the cracks. But with TWiD I have a sure-fire way to keep my interest going week [...]
We’ve had some fantastic weather over the last 10 days or so here in Vienna, Austria. It’s been very clear and sunny, yet not too hot. About a week ago I left the building at work (that’s in the 7th district), looked at the sky, and decided I needed to walk rather than jump on [...]
I’ve enjoyed digging even deeper into the lazy text questions that I came up with last time. The “thingamajig” returned by ugettext_lazy indeed waits until unicode is called upon it, then it runs through translation.
You can see this by the way ugettext_lazy is defined. It’s in core/utils/translation/__init__.py:
core/utils/translation/__init__.py
ugettext_lazy = lazy(ugettext, unicode)
That call to lazy [...]