Friday, December 21, 2001

GSL Scoring GSL Scoring Top 5 Through Dec. 21 Name, School GP Pts High Avg Morrison, Mead 7 189 38 27.0 Mallon, Ferris 7 183 44 26.1 Taylor, Central Valley 8 170 34 21.3 Weisner, Shadle Park 7 143 31 20.4 Pariseau, Shadle Park 7 119 21 17 11:31:56 PM     Python 2.2 I just noticed that Python 2.2 was released today. I guess I'm going to have to see if I can actually get it to compile successfully under MacOS X when I get home tonight unless someone releases a binary distribution before then. 2:15:36 PM     Web Weather Portals I first read about The Weather Underground in this Wired article a while back and discovered that they offer local local doppleras compared to weather.com's regional doppler images. Their maps weren't quite as nice though, so out of habit I've still used weather.com as my main source of weather information on the web. Well, no more. As if the mismatch of panels weather.com has been calling an interface for the past few months wasn't bad enough, they've gone from bad to worse with the addition of obnoxious full screen Flash based AT&T Wireless ads. The web is not television. Silent animated gifs are one thing, but I refuse to give you permission to take over my speakers and browser window to play Christmas tunes and the honking horn of a screen dominating orange snow plow. It's completely unacceptable for you to drive across actual page content. I'm turning to Weather Underground for good. 2:07:21 PM     SeaPIG, Cheetah, and Webware SeaPIG, the Seattle Python Interest Group looks like it could be interesting. I'll have to start exploring their Wiki a little bit soon. Actually, during a very brief perusal of SEApig's Wiki that I took immediately after writing the previous sentence I stumbled upon Cheetah, the Python-Powered Template Engine. That looks like a fairly interesting tool. I'm going to have to file that away for something to fiddle with later. On top of everything else the Cheetah page also mentions that it integrates tightly with Webware for Python, a Python-powered application server and persistent servlet framework. It looks like Zope has a competitor of sorts in the Python realm. I'm definitely going to have to investigate further over my vacation. 10:49:31 AM

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