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I remarked to Amit the other day that my titles rarely make sense. In this case, it's probably illegible to you, although I've shown a tendency to title posts in IPA in the past. This time, the title of the post is very much relevant to the concept contained within. Unfortunately, you (the reader) has a homework assignment: you must read this nymag article first.
I've been trying some self-improvement recently. This is my favorite time of year in the north-eastern United States, weather wise; I feel very comfortable in cooler weather and I like wearing light jackets so it's a win/win scenario. Usually around this time of year, I try to pre-empt new years resolutions. This has always felt like the real "new years" to me, since it is the the start of the pedagogic year.
Django 1.0 has some nice new features and some better ways of doing things we used to do manually. The admin app getting decoupled from the ORM has really paved the way for a lot of customization to go into the admin app; so much so that the last 10% it used to be missing for most CMS needs is now probably easily realized via small decoupled customizations.
I always feel like I should write something on this day. I started this blog about 6 months after 9/11/01, and I've been outspoken in my political beliefs since then. The shenanigans going on in the current election mimic the outright shambles our entire society has become in the years following the attacks on WTC and the pentagon. Instead of a day for quiet contemplation and commemoration of innocent lives that were lost that day, September 11th is merely a reminder of how horribly we, the people of the United States, handle disaster.
From some talks with Greg Deangelis, who seems to have taken Jeremy's design aesthetic to heart, I have decided that I should fix this broken site. Fixing it means a lot of things:
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