And evernote is awesome.

And, as before – leave me a comment or send me an email for an invite – I will need your email address to send it/them to you. Let me say that again: I need your email address. I promise I won’t send you wacky Japanese game show youtube links.

Without commenting on the problems of the OLPC project, which – for some time – has seemed to be rapidly pushing itself into oblivion – I completely agree on Ivan’s points on open source and frankly, everything else he says.

It’s saddening that the project which thrilled me – due to the ideas outline by Ivan – now disgusts me and so many others.

So far, I’m loving it – but I’m also someone with about 500+ bookmarks in Safari, a ton of “to read” stuff saved on my hard drive, and over 100 RSS feeds in NetNewsWire. So something to help me archive/save/search everything is key.

Now I just want PDF indexing support.

Ok, I have 10 more left!

A recent post on the pycon blog has me rethinking using Twitter or Jaiku for “micro blogging” (especially during a con). I’ve personally not used either one of them, but my preference would be to try out the now-not-accepting-new-users Jaiku.

How many people out there in the #pythonweb are using these?

Edit: I’ve signed up for both twitter (username: jessenoller) and Jaiku (username: jessenoller). Now I have to write a python app that dual-posts to both. Who knew social sites would be such a pain? :)

Edit2: I signed up for pownce too. God. That’s facebook, linkedin, pownce, jaiku, twitter, and a blog.

Microsoft just announced what has been rumored forever: a formal offer for Yahoo. Microsoft’s proposal to Yahoo’s board of directors represents $31 per share (a 62% premium over yesterday’s closing price) or about $44.6 Billion. Steve Ballmer, CEO and big fan of developers, says, “We have great respect for Yahoo!, and together we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers while becoming better positioned to compete in the online services market.”

Whoa. This insane. But if it goes through it’s good news for a few friends of mine. Makes me kick myself for not buying Yahoo stock :)

More here, and here

Both my wife and I were excited, ecstatic even. I mean, it’s not a palatial mansion by any stretch – but it was ours.

Then, things went sideways. After closing, after we start painting – we find a problem. A big, glaring problem. That problem happens to be a leaking toilet – that has apparently been leaking for some time (measured in potentially years) into the sub flooring. This means all the wood beneath the tile floor under the toilet it rotten and moldy, and that dampness and mold may have spread to the rest of the flooring and areas.

We found this pulling the toilet to put in a new one – now, instead of a cheap plop-in-a-new-toilet, we’re staring down the barrel of a much larger “strip to the walls due to rot and mold” deal. We can’t move in, and we didn’t even imagine this would happen.

Rotten wood, mold. The works. And no, it’s not covered, and it is no ones responsibility (or rather, no one is liable). Nope, we just get left holding the bag. The inspector found a tangental issue: but not the primary issue, so no one was technically the wiser.

Stupid toilets. From now on I’m only buying houses without running water, in non-flood plains in areas with no termites. Also the house will be made of stone.

One commonly-forgotten truth about OLPC is that our commitment to open source and free software isn’t religious, but pragmatic — we believe Linux and Sugar constitute a better software platform and, much more importantly, a better learning platform.

Not only do I agree with the first part of that quote, namely my philosophy to using open and free software runs towards the pragmatic, and not religious, but that the OLPC is a learning platform.

This quote also reenforces this idea.

Read his post here: ivan krstić · code culture: The paradox of choice

Other people have goals like “punch a camel” or “jump off a bridge” – one of my longstanding goals has been to “simply” get a house. Something is rather off-putting about paying someone else’s salary/mortgage and raising a child whilst renting.

Munchkin will now have her own large yard in which to run, although my idea of putting a running line up and getting her a harness so we could just let her run back and forth were summarily dismissed.

I’ve already bought paint, been to Lowes a few times, and bought myself actual tools for “working around the house”. Once the next month of “omg gogogogo” wears off, all should be happy.

If you really want to see pictures, I put some up.

Now, to juggle the outstanding python stuff, a tight work schedule, a six month old and moving.

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class Baby(object):
	self.name = 'Abigail Lorraine'
	self.length_inches = 20.5
	self.weight_lbs = 7

Yes. Abigail Lorraine was born today at 7:50am. Both Mother and small one are doing great and resting.

I can honestly say two things:

1> I cried.
2> This is one of the happiest, and simultaneously more surreal days of my life.

She’s a squirmer, no problems, nothing. I have a picture set on flickr here.