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MacWeek has a new article covering photo quality inkjet print lifespan. Apparently the inkjet prints generated by some printers can be fairly succeptable to environmental factors like ozone or airborne contaminants. The article does offer some useful tips for maximizing print lifespan so if you do a lot of photoquality printing it’s worth reading.

Etherlife returns from hiatus to bring us some sad, sad news: Bye Bye Bungie.
Penny Arcade’s take: Bob, We Hardly Knew Ye

I’ve put more miles on my poor old car in the last week or so than I have in quite a while, especially thanks to driving out to lake Coeur d’Alene this weekend. Of course it wasn’t all that many miles in the grand scheme of things, just a moderate spike in my average miles driven per week. Still, I should really get out my bike and ride to work a couple times this week if possible.

I really, really hope Microsoft doesn’t buy Bungie. But if they do and it impacts the development of Oni and Halo for the Mac there are going to be a lot of pissed off people, myself included.

It’s time for some lake action!

It’s looking like a better trade for the Mariners all the time.

Crud. Preformatted text is not working in my browser like it should be. Guess I’ll whip up a quick table and repost. Sigh.

I’ve been wondering what the Pyramaniacs have been working on lately; curiously the scoop came from the mysterious (in the sense that he lives far from the Bay Area and only occasionally updates his blog) Matt Hamer a few days back.

From the highly ironic department: I was fiddling around with the newly released Mac Mozilla build 16 and enjoying it’s overall improvement in appearance and functionality when I decided to make a new post detailing its progress here in Axodys. So I logged into Blogger and was just beginning an entry when Mozilla completely took down my computer. Ah well, that’s the beauty of beta software I suppose.

What is Pyxie? Pyxie is an Open Source XML processing library for Python that is featured in the new book XML processing with Python. It looks like a fairly intriguing book. I’m really curious to see what kind of applications it presents for the combination of Python, Pyxie, and XML. I’m also wondering if there’s some kind of functional similarity between the PYX format and Zike Interactive’s zebra tool.

The folks at LinuxDev.net have an introductory article on Developing Python-Based CGI-Scripts. Looks like it’s actually pretty simple (assuming you’ve already got Python installed), just a matter of installing PyApache and changing some configuration files.

I wonder how the performance of PyApache compares to mod_python?