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Davy Mitchell is asking for feedback on a comp.lang.python podcast demo that he recently created. When I first read his post, I was pretty excited about another Python podcast being added to the mix (Python411 being the other one). But after a quick listen, I discovered it was put together with text-to-speech… ugh!

Perhaps others will disagree, but I think it is absolutely unlistenable. I think I’d rather listen to somone stuttering through lines and popping their P’s on a cheap mic than have to endure a fake female voice saying “aich tee tee pee colon slash slash double you double you double you dot….”

Great idea and interesting hack, but I’d have to give this one a thumbs down.

Update: Davy bought a USB mic and might try doing a real Python podcast. I’d imagine there are quite a few Pythonistas who’d love to listen in.

Not exactly breaking news, but the list of PyCon2006 talks is available. Looks like there will be two talks about Django, and a third talk about documentation using Django as an example.

Adrian Holovaty will be giving a talk called Using Django to Supercharge Web Development. According to the description, it will be a basic overview of Django’s architecture, design philosophies, “out of the box” functionality and some basic code samples.

Jacob Kaplan-Moss will be giving a Django Tutorial. The talk will include a full walk-through of building a web application using the Django framework.

Being a complete Python newb, it’s likely that some (most?) of the PyCon presentations would be over my head. Still, I’d love to be able to go.

#!/usr/bin/env python
print "Hello World!"

WordPress is installed and working and my first customized theme is usable. Looks like I have a weblog (again).

The current theme is based on the WordPress default theme (Kubrick) with some minor edits by me. I would have liked to have used the new K2 theme, but there were just too many display issues when viewing the page in Internet Explorer. Even with this theme, there are minor positioning problems when viewed in IE.

Either way, the new weblog is up and running and that is a Good Thing.

Thanks for visiting, and I hope you enjoy the site.