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Jesus is Magic

My newest purchase:

Sarah Silverman: Mind Taker


Took them long enough to get this DVD out.

In other news, I'm off to the Oily Apple this weekend. (That's Edmonton for those of you not down with the upness of my cool...)


Midterms, Networks, Ray Tracers, and far to many flights. Oh what a life we lead.

Syndicated 2006-06-14 20:47:44 from Saul's Blog

Ok, this is my first post with my new crazy cross posting python program. (I really need a name for this thing). This in theory will show up in both my advogato and LiveJournal accounts. Now all I need to do is get the program to automatically take out tags that LJ lets me use but advogato doesn't.

But here comes the sun... I guess that means it's bed time

This is a Test post, with my spiffy new Python/XML-RPC based client for advogato (and maybe livejournal)
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Ok so it would seem my program works, boo yeah. I heart python, it took me less then 4 hours to get a working (and easily extendable) program. This is my first adventure in to the world of XML-RPC, and I have to say it's pretty cool. Basically all I needed to do was

import xmlrpclib 
foo = xmlrpclib.Server("http://www.advogato.org/XMLRPC")

And boom, I have an object that lets me interact relatively easily with advogato.

With that said, it would seem that no all sites have as well setup XML-RPC interfaces, I tried to get LiveJournal to talk to me, that took about 2 of the 4 hours. Now that might not sound bad, except when you consider at that point I already had a (basic) understanding of XML-RPC and already had the base python code ready.

Where this is all going

So my new idea, I've decided I don't really like the limited subset of html that advogato lets me use for my diary, so I'm thinking I'll start a LiveJournal account. But now here is the exciting part, I'm thinking once I get this code working right (I really need a name for this project) I'll set it up to take everything I post in my LiveJournal account and strip all the extra html tags out, and post it automatically to my advogato dairy. Thus allowing me to keep my advogato account active, while still giving me more formatting freedom in my dairy.

I'm now an advogato-ian now.

I've started an account partly because I want to get more involved in open source projects and partly because I wanted a work/school journal. So for the next 3 months or so, this will be my place to complain about my classes and assignments. And I know you are all just itching to hear more about that.

On the Assignment Front:

My OS assignment is going well. I had a nachos epiphany last night. Just all of a sudden I get how the system worked. I guess there is just a point where you read enough of the code, and it just all falls together.

Notes on Advogato:

I've read about how advogate works, and the how the trust metric works, it seems to be an interesting idea. Right now my only complaint is I just wish I could write my own CSS for my diary and page, it's just so plain and I don't care much for the diary writing interface. Though it really isn't so bad since it looks like I can whip up a front end in python in no time.