Had a nice morning going on a tour of Genencor's Silicon Valley R&D and manufacturing labs with some fellow Bio AP students.

speedbreeze: Went to SHDH @ MSFT today. Microsoft Surfaces are shiny.

speedbreeze: I decided to give my brother a Python-related Christmas present this year. http://twitpic.com/v7frj

speedbreeze: Fun idea we discussed in class on Friday: Trick-or-treating is actually a form of legalized extortion.

speedbreeze: If you ever need to use a text-based browser for anything, try elinks <http://www.elinks.cz/>. It even has some support for CSS & JS!

speedbreeze: Went to the California Academy of Sciences today. It was pretty spiffy. I really liked the 4-story rainforest.

speedbreeze: Just bought a copy of Shaun Inman's Fever app (http://feedafever.com/). Pretty impressed so far. The UI is *amazing*.

Solving Ubuntu 9.04's PIL Problems

Last night, I began some volunteer Plone 3 development work for a local robotics organization.  My first step was to create a buildout on my Ubuntu 9.04 workstation where I do my development.  I ran the usual set of commands to create, bootstrap, and build a new one.  Everything went normally, until I attempted to start the buildout in foreground with the following:

python2.4 bin/instance fg

For some reason, the instance did not start.

speedbreeze: Is at SHDH 33 hacking on Plone themes.

speedbreeze: SQL Buddy is absolutely awesome: it's super-easy to set up, has a beautiful interface, and is fun to work with! http://www.sqlbuddy.com/