One of my hobby projects is now included in the Softpedia Mac OS database. I don’t know if that means anything but it is fun to see that 9 people have downloaded that utility so far. A while ago I wrote a little PyQt4 application called pTimer to try out the famous Pomodoro Technique for productivity. The original reason why I wrote that timer was to get myself acclimatized to Qt programming using Python....

I’ve been messing around with Python for the past 6 months and I’m loving it. Today I went to my second UtahPython users group meeting and had a lot of fun and learned a ton of stuff. Chronological order of things I learned: Supy bot - an IRC bot written in Python. supybot-doxygen - A plugin for supy bot that can provide api documentation for any software that uses doxygen....

I went to my first Hapkido class today. I have a very good (and respected) friend from work, who is already taking that class and he recommended it. I had high hopes for that class, maybe a little too high. It was a little bit underwhelming due to my overtly hyped expectations. It is definitely more exerting (physically) than Aikido. It combines the kicks from Taekwondo with the joint locks in Aikido....

After three days of not having any rice, I finally made some today. Is it just me or does every one well up a little bit when they are about to taste rice?So if I like rice so much, why don’t I make some every day, you ask. Well, I’m a lazy bum who doesn’t enjoy cooking as much as eating. There, I said it!

InnerVoice: That is latin for “Life is Short, Art is Long”. Me: Yeah, I know, I’m a little behind on my personal projects. InnerVoice: Try waaaaay behind. There are at least ten tabs open at home and five tabs open at work Me: I’ll get to it. They are not going anywhere. InnerVoice: BTW, those unread emails with some tutorial links isn’t gonna master itself, you know. Me: Hmmm….. InnerVoice: Are you even listening to me?...