2011-06-27 (Monday)
Writing
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Using virtualenv with Django on WebFaction
Getting a Django site running on WebFaction hosting using virtualenv.
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The undercover quanitifed self
A chunk of Hamish MacGibbon’s father’s life was recorded by the security services, and still readable fifty years later.
Links
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LRB · Daniel Soar · Short Cuts
Fascinating, brief, look at the US government’s interest in analysing metaphors in foreign languages for security purposes. Well worth a read if you write, talk or think.
Tweets
A slid open door / concrete / a still warm still, still night / @mattsheret’s last.fm radio / typing.
@mildlydiverting It’s very, erm, “specialist”.
Double “long, sweaty afternoon of first time Webfaction Django WSGI server configuration success” fist punch!
@blech There’s plenty of time left to move to Berlin (or anywhere else) some day!
@blech I’m not sure the City of London (for one part of this city) would officially endorse that quote, unfortunately.
@AnnieFeighery Pleasure! I hope it’s useful :)
London/urbanism geeks! This Sunday at RFH, “Rebuilding the City: 1951 and now”: http://bit.ly/iwRJeX (I can’t make it, booo.)
A moment for friend’s survey? @AnnieFeighery: Which sectors r family-friendly for an emerging global health researcher? http://bit.ly/mKhywv
What’s the point of being freelance if you can’t stay home and take it easy occasionally?