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You Passed 8th Grade Math

Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct!

Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?
By way of Max Keshin…

As I sit here on hold, I am reflecting on the activity of listening to classical music over the phone. It is kind of like looking at a 3×5 snapshot of a sunset.
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The truth about IT
More truths about IT
Wecome to my world. I happen to work in a very good IT organization, too. I feel sorry for those of you toiling under a boss who can’t say “no” and expects the “extra mile” all the time. “Extra” sorta loses its meaning in that context. [...]

The other day, there was talk on IRC about CherryPy not being able to replace PHP in simple cases and I jokingly suggested a “PHPFilter” for CherryPy.

I preordered Civ4 yesterday. The game gets released in a week, and then I’ll have to wait a few days for shipping. Then it will be mine! Haha! Of course, with a wife, a two year old son, a baby on the way and other interests and pursuits, the entire days-stretching-into-nights-into-days [...]

So we are reading The Purpose Driven Life along with most of our church. It has some good stuff in it, but I keep getting hung up on Warren’s view of the will of God and human free-will.
Am I crazy to think that God does not create bad situations to “test” or “grow” us? [...]

I decided to rewrite a Python Cookbook recipe using CherryPy.
I don’t have anything against Twisted or Nevow, but there are just too many recipes devoted to them in the 2nd edition of the Python Cookbook.
It’s a testament to the simplicity of Python and CherryPy that I was able to create a recipe [...]

I converted part of MultiAuth to a filter this evening. It is now at version 0.7. It still has the metaclass and decorators for setting roles, but the actual authentiation and access control happens in the filter. I don’t recommend using 0.7 it at this point - I just put it out [...]

I have not forgotten MultiAuth, my little authentication/access control library for CherryPy. It has been working for me so I haven’t made any changes recently, but I have had some ideas that I have been playing with.
The main thing I have been fiddling with in my spare time is converting it to a CherryPy [...]

This proves it. I am a …

Pure Nerd
60 % Nerd, 34% Geek, 26% Dork

For The Record:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate [...]