Monthly Archives: December 2004

New Articles at VoiceXML Review

By | December 31, 2004

VoiceXML Review used to regularly publish interesting articles and news updates related to VoiceXML, but had fallen somewhat silent over the last six months or so. A lot has been going on with respect to VXML 2.1 and 3.0, so I’ve been hoping to see some more activity on the site. It’s good to see… Read More »

Fun with US Airways

By | December 26, 2004

I’m back from vacation, but am unfortunately one of the people who has suffered due to the current troubles at US Airways. My outbound flight from San Francisco to Orlando (I went on a cruise, not to the Disney greater metropolitan theme park) was operated by United, codeshared with US Air. Unfortunately for me, the… Read More »

Python 2.4 Puts the Wiki into MoinMoin

By | December 14, 2004

I was hoping that Python 2.4 would make MoinMoin a little quicker, and a completely unscientific survey (surveys conducted after midnight are rarely scientific) confirms this. With Python 2.3, opening pages for editing and saving them almost always took at least five seconds per action. While it’s still sometimes slow, the actions will often take… Read More »

Installing Python on Shared Server

By | December 14, 2004

Note to Self for Future The following steps are for installing Python 2.4 on a shared server. After ssh’ing to the server: $ wget http://python.org/ftp/python/2.4/Python-2.4.tgz $ cd Python-2.4 $ ./configure –prefix=$HOME/lib $ make && make install $ ln -s $HOME/lib/bin/python $HOME/bin/python/bin/python Credits: Thanks to Uche Ogbuji for publishing IRC transcript excerpts that reminded of the… Read More »

Thanksgiving Surprise

By | December 13, 2004

Nicholas decided to be the Thanksgiving surprise. However, he easily outweighed the twelve pound turkey we had purchased, so it was pretty easy to tell that a switch had been made. That and all the black fur poking through the holes in the box.

Python 2.4 and MoinMoin 1.3

By | December 11, 2004

I just noticed that Python 2.4 was released at the end of November. Fedora Core 3 RPMs are already available from the Python.org site. It’s supposed to have better performance than 2.3, so I may have to try it on my website to see if it will speed up my MoinMoin wiki, which is frustratingly… Read More »

Free Credit Reports

By | December 2, 2004

If you live in the Western United States, as of today you can get a free credit report from each of TransUnion, Experian, and Equifax. You can do this once per year. Check out AnnualCreditReport.com to see when you get your chance if you don’t live out west. Update 12/9: I corrected the above URLs.… Read More »