It’s a rainy Sunday afternoon, again, and I am ordering Chinese online. Well, I did order at least half an hour ago, I think. Wouldn’t it be great if the tab with the page where I submitted my order could tell me when I actually submitted? Then I would know how long it really has [...]

In case you were wondering, like me, where the hell the icons in the Firefox searchplugin dropdown menu went in Karmic… someone thought it would be a great idea to disable all the menu icons in Gnome and those searchplugin icons are treated as such menu icons, so you have to re-enable all Gnome menu [...]

RT @IMDb #IMDb turns 19 today. Thank you all. #
got a blinking cursor in firefox and scrolling with the keyboard sucks now? … disable “caret” mode by pressing F7 or via about:config. #
MySQL Python/Connector actually only works with Python >= 2.6, because of extensive use of the “as” keyword. https://launchpad.net/myconnpy #
“Everything will be okay in [...]

I am currently evaluating ways to run a persistent Python WSGI Webapp using Apache2 or Lighttpd. The idea is to have a daemon running on it’s own doing all the work, that also has an interface towards the webserver.
So I set up Lighttpd as SCGI client and used flup to wrap a simple WSGI app [...]

Linux based media centers have become pretty common these days. They usually offer some menu system to browse videos and your music archive. Some even offer RSS integration or a simple web browser. I decided for myself, that all those interfaces are nice, but not powerful or flexible enough for me — so I just [...]