Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

have browser, will travel

This Afternoon:

Yesterday I played tennis for the first time since August of 1998. I got a knee brace a few weeks ago, so now I can safely play sports again.

Here's an excellent picture (and description) of my knee brace, the GII Extreme. It's pretty huge... Mine is robo-cop silver though, not blue/purple.

I used to play all the time, until I blew out my knee in May of 1995. After that I wasn't able to play until August of 1997, when my knee was finally strong enough to play again. A series of minor but confidence-crushing re-injuries in August 1998 made me stop playing.

Before I left my last job I found out my medical coverage there would pay for 100% of the cost of a knee brace.

Playing tennis rocks. And last night, I got to watch a great tennis match between Agassi (he's been my favourite player since he started playing professionally) and Kafelnikov. Agassi is a true champion, and is truly the greatest tennis player in the world.

Here's a picture of my tennis racquet. I would have linked to the page on Head's site with the info picture on it but their site doesn't work with bookmarks. Not too smart.

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Evening Update:

Instant Python, by Magnus Lie Hetland. This is a great mini-tutorial that cuts to the chase immediately, and doesn't stop until after it thinks it's finished.

I think I learned the essential Python in just 15 minutes! Yes! Thanks Magnus!

Free idea: people should get together, write similar documents for all programming languages (okay, say the top 30 or so) and put them into an O'Reilly book.

Next: Zope. I think I better read through the ZopeNewbies site...