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About Me

PBX I'm Paul Bissex, and e-scribe.com is my consulting business. I build web applications using open source software, especially Django. In the '90s I did graphic design for newspapers and magazines. Then I wrote technology commentary and reviews for Wired, Salon.com, Chicago Tribune, and lots of little places you've never heard of. Feel free to email me.

Book

I'm co-author of "Python Web Development with Django", an excellent guide to my favorite web framework. Published by Addison-Wesley, it is available from Amazon and your favorite technical bookstore as well.

Colophon

Built using Django, served by Apache and mod_wsgi. 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.

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Stuff I Use

Akismet, bitbucket, del.icio.us, Django, Emacs, FreeBSD, Git, jQuery, LaunchBar, Markdown, Mercurial, OS X, Postfix, Python, Review Board, S3, SQLite, TextMate, Ubuntu Linux

Spam Report

At least 95837 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

Mining Monday: the hardware collection

Microsoft CP/M Card There's a fine line between collecting and just not knowing when to throw stuff out. Sometime in the last few years I switched from the latter to the former -- in the realm of vintage computer hardware, anyway. Because the OCD aspects of collecting kind of freak me out, I don't get too organized about it. I like portable stuff; I like Apple stuff; I like stuff that's cleverly designed. I like stuff I've actually used; I like getting stuff really cheap on eBay.

With that preamble I present the hardware collection. If you've got any of the items on my wish-list, please get in touch!

Monday, October 3rd, 2005
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Some related posts: Was the old Mac a hacker's machine? • What is the iPhone running, really? • New MacBook Pro • Obsolescence • Apple battery recall • The MacBook • Score one for Dell, sort of • MacBook Pro speed bumps • ExpressCard: what it is • Best feature of the new MacBook Pro

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