[caption id=“attachment_1022” align=“alignleft” width=“264” caption=“Band of Brothers”][/caption] Over this past weekend I found just enough time to finish reading Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose, a book about the story of the men of E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, U.S. Army infantry. Back in 2006 HBO had turned this book into a 10-episodes mini series which I avidly watched in one shot one day while visiting my friend Vinny in Massachusetts.

http://radiotray.sourceforge.net/ [caption id="" align=“alignleft” width=“128” caption=“RadioTray”][/caption] Radio Tray, your favorite light weight online radio streaming application, has gone under some more development churn since its last release. Namely, there is now a dbus interface to allow other applications to interact with it! So you write a “remote control” for Radio Tray and change the volume, change stations, extract metadata from the stream being played, etc. Here’s what’s currently supported: listRadios() getCurrentRadio() playRadio(name) turnOff() volumeUp() volumeDown() getCurrentMetaData() Fancy learning a bit about adding a dbus interface to your own application?

[caption id=“attachment_963” align=“aligncenter” width=“279” caption=“Week in Review”][/caption] Here’s what happened this week: Coffee, a personal history I first got hooked on drinking coffee back in the Spring of 1994 while attending a Microbiology class at Pace University. Our class started way too early for me and our professor (can’t remember her name right now) was this tiny old lady […] A Pig, an Elephant and a Yellow Dog From the “Read a Book to a Childâ€?

[caption id="" align=“alignleft” width=“160” caption=“Pumpkin Black Bean Soup by neon.mamacita”][/caption] Last night I attended two short presentation by Leonard Richardson, author of the O’Reilly book RESTful Web Services and developer on Launchpad.net. Unfortunately it took me a while to find a parking spot near UNC’s Chapman Hall, so I missed 90% of the first one, titled “A Spotter’s Guide to RESTful Web Services”. Based on the number of questions that were asked at the end, it seemed to me that this is an area where there are way too many possible ways people can get lost attempting to implement it…

From the “Read a Book to a Child" department, I’d like to recommend two amazing books that will be a sure hit for any kid, even the one inside you! [caption id=“attachment_969” align=“alignleft” width=“216” caption=“Watch me throw the ball by Mo Willems”][/caption] “Watch Me Throw the Ball" An Elephant & Piggie Book by Mo Willems is a wonderful book! I simply love the way Mo Willems writes the dialogs between Gerald, the always cautious and pessimistic elephant and Piggie, an optimistic, lovable pig.

[caption id=“attachment_979” align=“alignleft” width=“240” caption=“Trader Joe’s”][/caption] I first got hooked on drinking coffee back in the Spring of 1994 while attending a Microbiology class at Pace University. Our class started way too early for me and our professor (can’t remember her name right now) was this tiny old lady who barely raised her voice over the decibel level that dogs can hear. The class and subject were very interesting and by the end of the semester I felt very confident about my laboratory skills (and developed a phobia about anything that was not coated with some type of anti bacterial product).

[caption id=“attachment_963” align=“alignleft” width=“279” caption=“Week in Review”][/caption] Here’s what happened this week: Quotes to brighten your day Kind of ironic how my post titled “Stop whining and improve your lifeâ€? attracted so much negativity in the comments area. From the “Useful Django Tipâ€? Department: Reset The Admin Password This comes straight from the Useful Django Tip department: How do you reset the admin password for a Django project when you’ve forgotten it?