I hate them with a passion. When I see people sitting there trying to formulate sentences for no apparent reason but just to fill the void of silence, it just boils my blood. I was reading an article titled “Why Google can’t build Instagram” and I came across this quote how Larry Ellison actually got efficiencies from teams. If a team wasn’t productive, he’d come every couple of weeks and say “let me help you out....

Yosh and I have been planning to do a BSG (Battlestart Gallactica) marathon for a while now. Finally we broke down and decided instead of doing a marathon, we’ll just one episode at a time with our dinner. Here’s to the beginning. We had vegetarian Chili, Garlic Bread, Hash Browns and Beans with sesame seeds. ◀ 1 of 4 ▶

I found out during my Utah Python meetup that the game I created called Cows and Bulls is actually called MasterMind in the US. It’s a really simple game. The computer thinks of a 4-letter word. You start guessing that word and the computer will give hints along the way. Cows - Number of characters in your guess that match the original word, but placed in a different location. Bulls - Number of characters in your guess that match the original word, found in the exact same location....

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....