I follow quite a few blogs of various people that make headlines and have a coding background. One person in particular that somehow made the list many moons ago that I have failed to remove is Leah Culver. I think it was her ties to the midwest and the fact that she seems to be putting her ass out there with Pownce (which has since had to close its doors).

In her latest post, she talks about writing a plugin for Django. If you are unfamiliar with django, it is a web framework written in python which loosely follows the model-view-controller design pattern (source).

If you are in the Des Moines area, there is a great cause that you can help out with.

Today is the Transplant for Trae hockey game at Wells Fargo arena. Trae Hamilton is a 17 month old boy with a rare kidney disorder. A disorder if left untreated will most likely cause cancer to develop before he reaches kindergarten. More can be found in this Des Moines Register article.

The adult league game is at 3:45 at Wells Fargo followed by the Chops game at 7:05. A portion of the ticket sales will be going to the Hamilton family to cover various expenses associated with the transplant and long term care that Trae will require.

There’s nothing like a security company spamming you. Sure sure, some people might claim that I’ve signed up for this. Notice the header, it was sent to webmaster. Who signs up webmaster on a mailing list. NO ONE!!!

Nice try comodo, I’m not buying.

Unfortunately for us this year, St. Patty’s day falls on a work day which brings to mind this fine Irish quote:

“Work is a curse of the drinking class” -Oscar Wilde

Hopefully the office will have a nice celebration so we can raise a pint or two. If not, I’m scheduling an afternoon meeting at the pub.

A few weeks ago, one of our Public Radio stations here in the state of Iowa was off the air. It was a good week or two that it was out. I had a strong feeling that they knew about the outage, but I figured I would send them a quick note just in case. Here’s the response I got:

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Matt —

KUNI suffered a burnout in its transmission line last Saturday. We are currently off the air. We have a tower crew scheduled to arrive on Thursday – if all goes well it may only take a couple of days to repair.