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Finally been forced to drop into raw SQL for a Django query. The fact that I've gone this long without raw queries shows how good the ORM is

Odd that computers get faster and networks get faster but Wayland is less abstract and not networked. I think it's the right approach though

"Any language large enough to be useful is dauntingly complex" -- Simon Peyton-Jones

Wrote a Brainf*** interpreter in #Haskell and it worked first time. Yikes. I'm not sure what to do next.

Ruby is fun. I'm rather disappointed at the state of Unicode support in places though.

I suspect it's GitHub's forking model that stops projects dying so easily. Launchpad seems to have a higher proportion of unmaintained code.

So, Python has no QIF libraries, but Ruby has one: https://github.com/jemmyw/Qif as does Perl: http://t.co/ZCjH6mrh . Is Perl or Ruby more fun?

An important part of development is throwing it away when you find a better solution written by someone else.

I have really high hopes for #jsctags (ctags for JS): https://github.com/mozilla/doctorjs but it's still very immature.

I am amazed that Google Translate correctly understands '雅格獅丹' to mean 'Aquascutum'. Statistical methods win the day again.

Haha. I'm now seeing adverts for @potatolondon 's Google Art Project. How well does Google know me?

I've seen Java parodies without (I thought) much credibility, then there are things like this: http://t.co/wYJktI9L (yowza!)

'gray' in CSS is actually darker than 'darkGray': http://t.co/IpEue8Vj Bah, I've seen worse.

Really slick realtime monitoring of Twitter voters in the US of A: http://t.co/UZ6EjFtm

Ordered a foot pedal on Amazon -- the hardcore solution to the #Emacs aptitude test http://t.co/Cn0TDdd1