Counter-Strike: Source
Bought and installed… Best game ever. Update: Just for reference, that screenshot was taken at 800×600 and all the texture and model details turned down to either normal or low.
Archive | October, 2006
New power supply
Ordered a new power supply for my main desktop PC tonight. This is part of my continuing quest to figure out why my PC seems to lock up when I’m playing 3D intensive games… Update: Shipped from Memphis, TN with a scheduled delivery date of 10/12/2006. w00t!
Python script bindings for Irssi
Irssi participated in the Google Summer of Code which ended on September 8, 2006. They had a pretty good list of proposal ideas, including one to add script bindings for Ruby, PHP, Python, and/or other languages: Irssi already has extensive bindings for Perl scripts. This project would add bindings for other languages, including Ruby, PHP [...]
New version of geopy
If you need to map addresses to lat/lon coordinates, you’ll be interested to know that geopy 0.93 has been released: Geopy is a geocoding toolbox for Python. It includes support for many popular geocoders including Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Virtual Earth, geocoder.us, GeoNames, MediaWiki (with the GIS extension), and Semantic MediaWiki. It also includes a [...]
Trying SQLAlchemy
A few months ago I read about ORMs and (SQLAlchemy in particular) and decided it was time to start using them in my scripts for database access. Now, I have no problem writing some SQL. But being able to handle database information as objects and getting closer to database independence (e.g. SQLite vs. MySQL) seemed [...]
