strangely entangled

Erm, according to this newspaper article Japan attempted to create a hybrid race of WhaleCows. WTF?

I’m doing a lot of web development work these days, and I have to say that I’m really digging Django. It’s a Python-based web application toolkit that makes it very simple to throw together a database-backed website, along the same lines as Ruby on Rails.

I tried RoR for awhile, but something about the framework (or maybe it was the language itself) didn’t click with me. I did some development work in Python a few years ago, so Django is a natural fit.

My favourite feature so far has to be the built-in admin interface. Depending on your application, you might not even have to write a full web app - just define some database models, activate the admin interface,  and you have a full web interface to your data, with automatic history logging.

How sweet is that?

Today has been one of those days. If it were summer, I’d just give up and go to the beach. Unfortunately, it’s a typical Vancouver day out. That means it’s dismal, gray and dull.

I’ve been dealing with a lot of broken systems and software this morning. On days like this, I find myself missing physics. You know something isn’t right when you’ve decided to install OpenBSD in VMware for “fun”.