About Me

PBX My name is Paul Bissex, and e-scribe.com is my consulting business. I build web applications using as much open source software as possible. From September to June I teach web design and other important non-photographic professional skills to photographers. In the '90s I wrote technology commentary and reviews for magazines, newspapers, and web publications, including Wired, Salon.com, FamilyPC, the late lamented Web Review, and the Chicago Tribune. Feel free to email me.

Book

I'm co-author of "Python Web Development with Django", an excellent guide to my favorite web framework. Its strong points include an introduction to Python, and better coverage of Django 1.0 than nearly anybody else. Published by Addison-Wesley, it is available from Amazon and your favorite technical bookstore as well.

Colophon

This runs on Django, served by Apache and mod_python. The database is SQLite. The operating system is FreeBSD, on a VPS hosted at Johncompanies.com. Comment-spam protection by Akismet. Vintage topo imagery from the Maptech archive. The markup engine is Markdown.

Pile o'Tags

Stuff I Use

Akismet, del.icio.us, Django, dpaste.com, Emacs, FreeBSD, Freenode, jQuery, LaunchBar, MacPorts, Markdown, Mercurial, OS X, Postfix, Python, SQLite, Subversion, TextMate, Trac, Ubuntu Linux, wmii

Spam Report

At least 59052 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

Jabberwocky 2.0 (BETA)

'Twas google/ig, and the odeos
Did skype and quimble in engrade:
All simpy were the buzzingos,
And the feedpaths carbonmade.

"Beware the Frappr flock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Yubnub bird, and shun
The del.icio.us Offertrax!"

He took his orkut sword in hand:
Long time the slawesome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Numsum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in schtuffish thought he stood,
The Frappr flock, with eyes of flame,
Came gliffling through the elggy wood,
And blurbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The zurpal blade went tikitac!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went listsomething back.

"And, has thou slain the Frappr flock?
Come to my arms, my beeplet boy!
O tractis day! Polloo! Webjay!'
He yorzled in his joy.

'Twas google/ig, and the odeos
Did skype and quimble in engrade:
All simpy were the buzzingos,
And the feedpaths carbonmade.

(Thanks to Read/WriteWeb for the list of lists of Web 2.0 sites. No guarantee as to actual Web 2.0-ness is expressed or implied. Web 2.0 may not exist. Reality may be an illusion. Apologies to the author of Jabberwocky 1.0, Lewis Carroll, although I'm pretty sure he's dead.)

Saturday, May 20th, 2006
doggerel + fun