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Thursday, 24th January 2008

Django People: OpenID and microformats

In hindsight, it was a mistake to launch Django People without support for OpenID. It was on the original feature list, but in the end I decided to cut any feature that wasn’t completely essential in order to get the site launched before it drowned in an ocean of “wouldn’t-it-be-cool-ifs”.

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flickr.places.findByLatLon. New API method for Flickr Places. If only Flickr could return a bounding box for each place...

# 1:05 pm / apis, flickr, flickrplaces, geo

Canon EOS 450D / Digital Rebel XSi. Two weeks after a buy I EOS 400D. Sigh. It’s not out until April, but the big new features are a 3" LCD and "live view" mode. The kit lens now has image stabilisation.

# 2:48 pm / cameras, canon, digitalrebel, eos400d, eos450d, photography