Category Archives: Misc

A Tall Tail by Charles Stross | Tor.com.

Boston Brass – "Largo", New World Symphony/Antonin Dvorak – YouTube.

Here’s why I should post on my own blog, and nowhere else. Proof point made by people far smarter than I. http://beta.branch.com/owning-your-own-words-is-it-important-1

BAM ~ DOLL by Helen Jane Long – YouTube.

So first of all – this is *horrible*. This pops up when I print something on my new HP printer. It disrupts my user experience, makes me less productive, and distracts me from what I was doing. I now have … Continue reading →

I have another workaround: Put following lines into site-packages/sitecustomize.py see http://www.faqs.org/docs/diveintopython/kgp_unicode.html import os, sys if ‘UTF-8’ in os.environ[‘LANG’]: sys.setdefaultencoding(‘utf-8’) via Issue 10 – gcalcli – UnicodeEncodeError – Command Line Interface to Google Calendar – Google Project Hosting.