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Efficiency (a virtue) is the child of laziness and greed (both vices), while much of our economic activity is devoted to preventing boredom in the idle time created by increases in efficiency. To be human is to be a strange creature indeed :)

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102 from 1 Nov 2004 to 1 Nov 2024
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2024 1

  1. The origin of venvstacks

2019 1

  1. What does "x = a + b" mean?

2017 1

  1. Considering Python's Target Audience

2016 5

  1. Abusing Contributors is not OK
  2. The Python Packaging Ecosystem
  3. What problem does it solve?
  4. Propose a talk for the PyCon Australia Education Seminar!
  5. Accessing TrueCrypt Encrypted Files on Fedora 22

2015 8

  1. 27 languages to improve your Python
  2. incredibly complex
  3. TCP echo client and server in Python 3.5
  4. Background tasks in Python 3.5
  5. previous post
  6. Inaugural PyCon Australia Education Miniconf
  7. Stop Supporting Python 2.6 (For Free)
  8. DTCA Public Consultation - Brisbane

2014 7

  1. Running Kallithea on OpenShift
  2. Seven billion seconds per second
  3. Some Suggestions for Teaching Python
  4. Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0
  5. The transition to multilingual programming
  6. more disruptive
  7. On Wielding Power

2013 3

  1. Python Language Summit - PyCon US 2013
  2. Change the Future - one small slice of PyCon US 2013
  3. 2013-02-26 14:45

2012 11

  1. PyCon India 2012
  2. Python's Future: A Global Perspective
  3. my post
  4. The title of this blog
  5. Volunteer developed free-threaded cross platform virtual machines?
  6. Some thoughts on else clauses in Python's loops
  7. contextlib2 0.4: Now with ExitStack!
  8. An embarrassment of riches
  9. Django's CBVs are not a mistake (but deprecating FBVs might be)
  10. Using the SOPA protests to highlight related problems in Australia
  11. WalkDir 0.3 released (for more Python versions, thanks to Shining Panda!)

2011 45

  1. Help improve the Python 3.3 Standard Library...
  2. New Year Python Meme - December 2011
  3. Correcting ignorance: learning a bit about Ruby blocks
  4. Mirror All The Things!
  5. Spinning up the pulpdist project
  6. pulpdist project
  7. Of Python and Road Maps (or the lack thereof)
  8. Scripting languages and suitable complexity
  9. Open Source, Windows and Teaching Python to New Developers
  10. other day
  11. Sure it's surprising, but what's the alternative?
  12. Effective communication, brain hacking and diversity
  13. Sharing vs broadcasting
  14. Updated to do list for Python 3.3
  15. Fixing GRUB2 update issues with Kubuntu 11.04
  16. Switching to Android
  17. musings on the culture of python-dev
  18. The benefits (and limitations) of PYC-only Python distribution
  19. Musings on the culture of python-dev
  20. a variety of ways
  21. mitigating and coping with climate change
  22. Python VM Summit - Somewhat Coherent Thoughts
  23. Python Language Summit - Rough Notes
  24. Python Language Summit - Highlights
  25. Thoughts and Impressions following PyCon 2011
  26. Queensland's "unelected" leader of the opposition
  27. Climate change "skepticism": a text book case of the "Tragedy of the Commons"
  28. PyCon summary post
  29. rough notes
  30. VM summit
  31. raw notes
  32. What is a Python script?
  33. Python VM Summit - Rough Notes
  34. "Status Quo Wins a Stalemate"
  35. Linking sites in blog posts
  36. To Pycon and beyond...
  37. Bye-bye Blogilo
  38. Justifying Python language changes
  39. Posting code and syntax highlighting
  40. Status quo wins a stalemate
  41. to-do list
  42. Some goals for Python 3.3
  43. Comments update and site to-do list
  44. Which matters more to you: being right or staying friends?
  45. more comprehensive essay

2010 6

  1. An Ethos
  2. Musings on the LotR movie adaptations
  3. Joining the modern era of blogging
  4. Kubuntu dev packages to build Python
  5. Justifying Python language changes
  6. Status quo wins a stalemate

2007 1

  1. What he said

2006 1

  1. Ego Surfing

2005 4

  1. Lance & Hannah
  2. Grand Column
  3. Self-defeating Advertisements
  4. Because James doesn't remember it

2004 8

  1. far more prominence
  2. Brain Dead Software #1: Yast Online Update
  3. Google Footprint
  4. Type-checking in Python
  5. Email Blogging
  6. Firing it up
  7. Python Quirk
  8. Mt St Helens