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The cup IS the spoon.

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Subaru: 1
Zephyr: 0

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Clouds over the escarpment.

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Aperture crashed the other day. Not only did it take Aperture out, but pictures bled through to other applications. I had to shut down and re-start OS X.

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This JPEG exported by Aperture 1.5 has artifacts the master lacks: vertical lines, somewhat reminiscent of scratches on old movies.

I'm having trouble storing feedparser results in a Django model.
It's all about timestamps. Feedparser returns timestamps in a standard time nine-tuple, asserting UTC. Django wants datetime objects. So, I'm trying to translate:
django_timestamp = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(time.mktime(feedparser_timestamp))
feedparser_timestamp = django_timestamp.utctimetuple()

This works fine for the majority of timestamps, but sometimes translating to datetime and back mutates the timestamp. In [...]This is a post from Deadly Bloody Serious.
Django vs feedparser on dates

Yep. Quadruple-barrelled.
I always wondered what'd happen if one double-barrelled person married another double-barrelled person. Reg Drax here seems to be Exhibit A. 
Our kids are double-barrelled. To save them from Reg' fate, we carefuly chose their middle names so they could ditch the two surnames entirely if necessary. 
Thanks, Merlin! 
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Admiral Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax

QuickPost Wordpress Plugin - Version .4 is now available
So far, so good, except for the database error (wp_categories doesn't exist) under WordPress 2.3…
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QuickPost Wordpress Plugin - Version .4 is now available
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QuickPost Wordpress Plugin - Version .4 is now available

Zephyr, this morning:
Zephyr big boy. Daddy big boy. Mummy big girl. Willow big chicken pox.

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Zephyr’s sense of humour, age 2.5
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Zephyr’s sense of humour, age 2.5

I’m seeing a lot of this disturbing little error message: “The wireless network appears to have been compromised and will be disabled for about a minute.”

A poke around the Internet doesn’t show much other than other people complaining about the same problem. Some find the only way to solve the problem is to disable WPA. [...]This is a post from Deadly Bloody Serious.
Wireless network “appears compromised”