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Wednesday, 31 January 2007

Was Eric Censored?

There are some reviews of Eric Clapton’s Shanghai concert up on his web site. The set lists of the concerts in other countries make interesting reading. There’s only two place in which Cocaine was not performed: China and Singapore. Think about it.

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Wednesday, 31 January 2007

MySpace Lessons in How Not To Build A Web Site

Baseline Mag has an overview of how MySpace coped with rapid growth. Basically a good lesson in how not to build a dynamic database backed website. 

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Wednesday, 24 January 2007

Shanghai To Issue Spit Bags To Taxi Drivers

Shanghai To Issue Spit Bags To Taxi Drivers. Nice. Would you rather ride around with a bag of spit all day or wind down your window and expectorate?

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Sunday, 21 January 2007

Sunday, 21 January 2007

Eric Clapton in Shanghai

eric clapton in shanghaiEric Clapton played Shanghai last night. Lots of old tunes from the Derek and the Dominoes era. More details here. Talking of Dereks one of his two support guitarists on this tour is Derek Trucks.

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Thursday, 18 January 2007

Shanghai Metro Has A New Website

Shanghai Metro has a new website. There’s no metro map on the site though. Why would there be?

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Thursday, 18 January 2007

Wednesday, 17 January 2007

urllib2.URLError: urlopen error unknown url type: https

Note to self: for the following to work on a Mac with fink’s python

xml = urllib2.urlopen("https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/recent").read()

Your python needs ssl support.

fink install python24-socket-ssl

Phew!

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Sunday, 14 January 2007

Application Updates with Sparkle

Sparkle is a programmers tool that automates application updates.

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Sunday, 14 January 2007

ChocoFlop

ChocoFlop is a CoreImage based image editor currently in pre-release. Looks good.

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