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My good friend Ryan recently posted some thoughts about hearing from and praying to God:

Some honest questions from an honest person who has been a “Christian” for some time now.
“How does one hear God?” Lately, I’ve heard lots of people begin their sentences with “I felt like God was telling me…” or “God seems to [...]

Curtis and I joined a bunch of men and boys from our church for a canoe and camping trip on the Little Beaver Creek this weekend. The trip was a lot of fun and I was very proud of how well Curtis handled it; he had a lot of fun and was very patient [...]

CherryPy Essentials
Author: Sylvain Hellegouarch
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Pages: 257
Introduction
The title CherryPy Essentials is a bit of a misnomer, as this book covers far more than the bare essentials of CherryPy 3. Admittedly, a book on simply the essentials would be little more than a leaflet, as CherryPy is very easy to understand and be productive with. [...]

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Holy crap a non-nerd post!!!!!!!*
Don Imus got fired, and I am glad that it happened. As messed up as this world is, I am glad to see that there are still consequences for bad behavior.
Maybe bad behavior seems a bit too soft of a term, but that’s what it comes down to.
For [...]

Here’s the situation.
I have a list of known field names.

specific_order = ['id', 'age', 'zzyzx', 'bar', 'spam_eggs']

That list is in the order that I want the resulting data displayed in. The dataset is a simple dictionary where the items in the specific_order list are the keys.
However, in each dataset there is the possibility that derived [...]

So, despite the weather, I am in good spirits. Why, you ask?
Baseball is back. Go Tribe!
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Uuugh.
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I’m off to PyCon 2007 in a few hours. This will be my first one, and I’m really looking forward to it.
UPDATE: My flight just canceled. Sounds like I’ll be leaving sooner than I thought now …
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There were some major themes/events that were important for the Wyglendowskis in 2006 - here’s a recap.
New Life
The early months of 2006 were spent getting adjusted to life with a 2nd child. Before Eli was born, we were conned into believing that adding another child would not significantly increase parental workload. It sounded [...]