I have been providing the sympa mailing list manager on Pepperfish for a few years now; explicitly for a single customer who demands some of its features such that enemies-of-carlotta is insufficient.…

Thanks to everyone who has commented about ternary operators. In particular; thanks to Steve Alexander for pointing out PEP 308 to me along with this opinion that the python guys made the right choice…

Just now, while working, I had occasion to use the much maligned ternary operator. Unfortunately I was working in python which doesn’t have the ternary operator per-se and so I had to call a friend (m…

Piotr Szotkowski (Shot) sent me a mail explaining how when you use the gnome font dialogs, you are simply configuring ~/.fonts.conf and that config combined with /etc/fonts/local.conf governs how font…

Norbert Tretowski says here that he has never seen anti-aliased fonts look good. Basically I’m certain that he’s simply never seen someone who has configured their fonts properly. I’ve never found a d…

A week ago on Monday I went to the doctor. Such a romantic thing; an asthma checkup. I did my usual explaining of my asthma symptoms and the nurse listened carefully and asked pertinent questions (as …

A while ago now; a colleague and friend pointed me at the following poem by Leo Buscaglia To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out for another is …

Today someone asked me about my keysigning stuff so I took a moment out to create a page on my website to at least make it easier for others to use my scripts. Share and enjoy

Jesus Climent asked for a larger version of my sunset photo from here