Author Archives: Andrew Watts

Thoughts of the Day: Sarah Palin

I am very apathetic, and politics by in large disgust me to no end. But, Today I read and watched more political news than any other single day since the night of the 2000 election.
Why? I guess I like a good story.
But, before today I had never heard of Sarah Palin. [...]

Installing IPython on OS X

With my recent python education, I have reached a point where the python interpreter in interactive mode isn’t meeting my needs anymore.
After looking around for alternatives, it looks like IPython will be a good upgrade. But one problem, the installation documentation was way too verbose and complex, so I’ve tried to simplify it here:
1. [...]

New JetBlue charge: $7 pillow, blanket

New JetBlue charge: $7 pillow, blanket: up next, $3 to urinate & $5 to poo.

Fixing twitterrific’s iphone lat lon cryptography the hard way

Twitterrific’s iPhone App updates your location on twitter using the twitter api. This is fine and dandy but the problem is that it updates with the actual latitude and longitude that (I assume) comes from the iphone api.
So, since most people simply just want to know where you are without hurting their heads doing [...]

Brief Thoughts on PyOhio

Last Saturday I attended PyOhio in Columbus and I wanted to write a few words before too much time went by. I went for a couple reasons, mainly because I have just begun learning about python and have made it about half way through Mark Lutz’s Learning Python, so I was hoping to get [...]