Archive for May 2010

Citicard is shortsighted.

Remember the pain we used to have to go through to cancel a credit card?  Well, not anymore.  And that’s weird.  You’d think that with the recession so close behind them the creditors would be trying hard to keep customers. Luca and I just got back from fishing – caught a nice, 18″ large mouth […]

Installing gdata on Ubuntu 9.04.

Don’t forget that by default, most python module install themselves in /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/. But the default install of python2.6 on Ubuntu 9.04 doesn’t look there. Ugh. So, instead of installing with python setup.py install use python setup.py install –install-layout=deb and the module will install itself in /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages and then python will be able to find it.

Hacked.

Old news. Didn’t upgrade my wordpress for a looong time. Came over this afternoon to make a new post and found the bottom of my blog covered in arabic. Ugh. Someone had added an administrator account, too. So, apply new theme and nuke the old – the templates were altered. Delete all three add-ons. Change […]