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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 Project

I'm co-authoring a book, "Python Web Development with Django", with Jeff Forcier and Wesley Chun. It will be published by Prentice Hall in July 2008, but is available for pre-ordering on Amazon now.

Colophon

This site is built on a fresh trunk checkout of Django, running on Python 2.5.1, 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.

Pile o'Tags

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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

A Django site.
(Finally!)

Copyright 2008
by Paul Bissex
and E-Scribe New Media

70 posts tagged "fun"

Python one-liner of the day
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
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History lesson
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
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The original Lego Star Wars
Monday, March 31st, 2008
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A weather site in six (declarative) lines
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
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The Language I Will Kind of Learn in 2008: Smalltalk
Saturday, February 9th, 2008
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World's ugliest Django app
Monday, January 21st, 2008
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Developer meeting braindump 2007-09-20
Friday, September 21st, 2007
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Developer meeting braindump 2007-08-09
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
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Developer meeting braindump 2007-07-12
Friday, July 13th, 2007
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Developer meeting braindump
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
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Django.June wrapup
Sunday, June 17th, 2007
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6 comments

The Palm Foleo
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
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Twittered
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
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DjangoKit
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
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6 comments

Podcasting Antipatterns
Sunday, April 1st, 2007
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Library of 1000 scammy spams
Saturday, March 10th, 2007
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Kerning DreamHost
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
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1 comment

Neat Python hack: infix operators
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
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iPhone, youPhone, weallPhone
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
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Best one-line smiley ever
Thursday, February 15th, 2007

More unexpanded spam macros
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
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99-byte Python quicksort
Friday, December 15th, 2006
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10 comments

STFU
Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
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Reverse game: Codegolf edition
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
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Blog flair backlash
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
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1 comment

Alpha Romeo Romeo Romeo
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
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Software for determining image similarity?
Friday, September 15th, 2006
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4 comments

Obsolescence
Thursday, September 14th, 2006
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Best OSCON 2006 -- er, 2005 -- photo
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
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Spot the forgery
Friday, July 21st, 2006
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Web developer evolution
Sunday, May 21st, 2006
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Jabberwocky 2.0 (BETA)
Saturday, May 20th, 2006

Stupid eBay tricks
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
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Technology wanted: FFE
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
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4 comments

USB Art
Monday, March 20th, 2006
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The Million Beta Homepage
Monday, February 6th, 2006
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The Blue Sky anti-massacree movement
Friday, February 3rd, 2006
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My Palm TX runs Windows 98
Thursday, January 19th, 2006
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2 comments

Let's play a game: BASIC vs. Ruby vs. Python vs. PHP
Saturday, January 14th, 2006
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Unclear on the concept, installment #7,423
Thursday, January 12th, 2006
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Best feature of the new MacBook Pro
Thursday, January 12th, 2006
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4 comments

Google Earth for OS X
Tuesday, January 10th, 2006
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Selling beat-up stuff on eBay
Sunday, January 8th, 2006
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How to say you're sorry
Saturday, December 31st, 2005
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2 comments

Evolving a new keyboard
Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
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Big. Green. Similar.
Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
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Figlet Captcha
Monday, December 5th, 2005
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Brainbenched
Monday, November 28th, 2005
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BASIC Computer Games
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005
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Web 2.0 imitates satire
Monday, November 21st, 2005
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Ubuntu, I buntu, we all buntu
Thursday, November 17th, 2005
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Dear Section508.gov webmaster
Monday, November 14th, 2005
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2 comments

Mining Monday: embarrassing Google searches
Monday, October 31st, 2005
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Mining Monday: the 419
Monday, October 24th, 2005
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Product idea: Single-speaker iPod station
Sunday, October 23rd, 2005
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Useless script: View180
Saturday, October 22nd, 2005
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Mining Monday: Random Shakespeare
Monday, October 17th, 2005
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Mining Monday: Ungreek
Monday, October 10th, 2005
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Kaypro model numbers
Monday, October 3rd, 2005
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Hizzitachi
Saturday, September 17th, 2005
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Fun with link farms
Monday, September 5th, 2005
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Project idea: G5-style Mini
Sunday, August 28th, 2005
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My Brace Style Is Unstoppable
Monday, August 22nd, 2005

This Spartan Life
Friday, August 19th, 2005

Hard life for hardware
Monday, August 15th, 2005
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A Ruby happening
Thursday, August 4th, 2005
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Learning to talk good
Thursday, August 4th, 2005
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OSCON Playtime
Sunday, July 31st, 2005
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Everything on Rails
Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
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Happy indeed
Wednesday, July 13th, 2005
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