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Mormon Potluck Podcast: Episode 9 — Topic includes Sabbath day activities, early church history, and "blue laws" (Tagged: mormon podcast lds humor audio mp3 religion).

Django Djumpstart: Build a To-do List in 30 Minutes [Server Side Essentials] — SitePoint demo/tutorial. Build To-Do list using Python/Django (Tagged: django tutorial programming howto python web webdev development). Develop for the Web with Django and Python — IBM developerWorks article on Django (Tagged: python django tutorial programming framework development). Django snippets — Code snippets [...]

We just posted a new episode of the Mormon Potluck podcast. This weekly podcast is created by 4 friends brought together by religion, and a love for all things tech. Each week we talk about life in general, how our Mormon beliefs affect our lives, news, politics, and the technologies we love (or hate).

If you haven’t had a chance to listen yet, you don’t know what you are missing! Episode 2 of the Mormon Potluck Podcast is online now.

The Bash shell always amazes me. I needed to create a Maildir using the typical Maildir/cur, Maildir/new, Maildir/tmp structure and stumbled on this: $ mkdir -m 0700 -p Maildir/{cur,new,tmp} The -m and -p options are no-brainers, but the {cur,new,tmp} was new to me. It was easy to figure out what was going to happen… one [...]

At the end of May, I’ll be rafting down the Rogue River in southern Oregon. I am looking forward to what should be a wonderful adventure with good friends, and to seeing more of Oregon’s beautiful landscape. The trip deserves to be well documented, so I stocked up on Moleskine Cahiers journals and purchased a [...]

After cleaning my laptop’s LCD several times with Windex, a fair amount of streaking built up, making the display far less than perfect. A quick search suggested a 50/50 mix of isopropyl alcohol and distilled water was the best solution for safely, and effectively cleaning LCD displays. After mixing a batch, and tearing up an [...]

OK, so I’ve been busy… cut me some slack! Here’s something to whet your whistle: On a recent trip to San Francisco, I discovered the best soda ever — it’s called GuS. It’s slightly sweet, lightly flavored, and absolutely refreshing. I tried the Dry Meyer Lemon and was hooked… I couldn’t get enough! I can’t [...]

I find myself often deleting a large series of emails from a rather noisy mailing list, while retaining some messages previously received. Since Gmail’s selection buttons are limited to All, None, Read, Unread, Starred, and Unstarred, I’m forced to press the ‘x’ key, or click a check box for every email in the series. There [...]

Larry ‘Bud’ Melman died today at the age of 81. As a long time Late Night with David Letterman fan, I will never forget those zany interviews where Larry ‘Bud’ Melman often held the microphone in front of his own mouth while his subject spoke, and then reversed the position when he spoke. Here’s my [...]