OpenIDFriday, 21st March 2008
Milford Sound, a photoset
One of the most beautiful parts of New Zealand, Milford Sound is actually a fjord where 1500m high mountains reach all the way down to sea level. We took an overnight cruise on the Milford Wanderer and stopped off at the Milford Deep Underwater Observatory on the way back.
Amazon.com: amazon oddities. Warning: reading the user reviews on these items has the potential to soak up hours. 
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A Toy Chat Server with Eventlet and Mulib (via) Eventlet (the Python non-blocking IO library originally written for Second Life) is ideally suited to building Comet servers; Chuck Thier demonstrates a simple chat server in a small amount of code. 3:28 am
Administrative Debris. Ryan Tomayko explains his exceptionally clean redesign, inspired by Edward Tufte’s critique of the iPhone. 3:29 am
mysql_cluster (via) My Russian isn’t all that good, but this looks like a neat way of getting Django to talk to a master/slave setup, written by Ivan Sagalaev. UPDATE: English docs are linked from the comments. 
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Version 2.0 of mod_wsgi is now available. Includes features that should make Python (and Django) on shared hosting much easier: a non-root user can touch their WSGI script file to restart just their application’s daemon processes when they make changes and Python virtual environments are supported to allow different versions of packages without interference. 1:23 pm
