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I wrote in a previous article about using SQLite with Pylons. SQLite is great for small-to-medium web projects and also prototyping. Its not very hard to port a SQLite implementation to a more robust and scalable RDBMS such as PostgreSQL.
Anyway, if you have used SQLite in any capacity, you have no doubt noticed [...]

On my home desktop, I dual boot Windows and OpenBSD. Under OpenBSD, I have a few good choices for music players. Since I’ve taken quite some effort to organise my music collection – which resides on a 2T RAID 5 array on my OpenBSD server, served up via NFS / Samba – Xmms, [...]

Through CrossFit, I’ve recently heard about the benefits of training with gymnastics rings. Today my rings, which I purchased from RingTraining.com (affiliate link) for a pretty reasonable price, arrived – and I’ve been using them a bit. To get an idea of the kind of strength training you can do with rings, check [...]

Today on my ride home from work, along Fell St. between Divisadero and Broderick, I saw the guy cycling just in front of me get hit by a car which made a sudden left turn, into the bicycle lane, and into a parking lot.

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The car was moving slowly at the time, but the guy was [...]

So it was Friday and the WOD posted on CrossFit.com was “Nicole”:
Complete as many rounds in 20 minutes as you can of:
Run 400 meters
Max rep Pull-ups

I live near the Inner Sunset in San Francisco, around a mile from Kezar Stadium. Kezar is a fantastic training resource – it has a decent running track (one [...]