Published Author

That's right sports fans, your's truly is now a published author. I'm writing articles for the Python programming language magazine: Python Magazine. I'm writing a monthly column entitled "Welcome to Python". If anyone is interested the first issue is available online for free as a pdf here.

If you download it you can read my fantastic article on XML parsing using the ElementTree module, plus a find photo of my fine mug.

That's it for now, hopefully another post about last weekend and Nuit Blanche. Plus we here in Canada have Thanksgiving coming, and I think that I can already smell the tofurkey.

Also don't take apart you batteries, that video was a hoax that I fell for, thanks to Senior Adam Kapilik for helping me out of that hole.

Too busy to Read those classics?

Are you just too busy to read books? Well here comes DailyLit to the rescue. Basically what DailyLit is a service that emails you bite sized chunks of public domain novels on a daily basis:

Because if you are like us, you spend hours each day reading email but don't find the time to read books. DailyLit brings books right into your inbox in convenient small messages that take less than 5 minutes to read. This works incredibly well not just on your computer but also on a Treo, Blackberry, Sidekick or whatever the PDA of your choice. In the words of Dr. Seuss: Try it, you might like it! (Oops -- it would appear that the actual quote from Green Eggs and Ham is "You do not like them. So you say. Try them! Try them! And you may.")

I'm starting off with Thus Spake Zarathustra just cause I've always wanted to read it. I think next will be the Divine Comedy if I can get through this one.

I figure that enough of my readers are booky nerds that will dig into this.

I don't know much but...

Movies like this: Children of Men, always look really good to me. So go check out the trailer and say: "Wow, Mark is right, I like those (post)apocalyptic movies."

Oh yeah, and Rocky Balboa, I mean I don't want to like it, I really don't, but there is just something deep inside me that really wants to see this movie.

Parisian Panorama

Since I did this for Toronto, I came across a similar photo (albeit cooler) for Paris: Paris By Night

You ever wonder why a word like albeit is still correct? Me too.