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One of the channels we get on our freesat box (that isn’t really free…it’s more like a $20 per month view box…but that is another story) is Food Network UK. One of the shows on there is Food Network Challenge. Last night, we saw this birthday cake show. One of the challengers made a UGLY (pronounce it like yugly…it starts with yugo…like the car) cake. Here’s a video about it:
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Here’s another article and some pictures.
My fitday journal for 28 July 2010.
Image from Martin Pettitt via flickr
Ok everyone…I know I’ve gotten bad about blogging over the past few months; however, the last few weeks haven’t been my fault. The Maxson clan moved to England on the Island of Britian that is part of the UK (confused? Watch the video embedded below).
Before we could get internet, we had to set up a bank account. We went to the bank the first week we were here and turned in the paperwork. Just a few days ago, we got our information (we are still waiting on the ATM cards). I called that day and got set up with an ISP, but we are waiting for them to install it. We’ve been given a date of 6 August as the setup date. Until then, internet access is very spotty and we don’t have bandwidth to do things like upload pictures.
Until we get our internet set up, you’ll just have to sit tight and wait for new pictures. When we get internet, I’ll make a real post and fill everyone in over what happened the last month.
Image from Leia via flickr
Here’s my fitday journal for today.
Just a note, I’ve got lunch and dinner in there right now…but, I’ll add dinner later today when we eat it.
Image from superwebdeveloper via flickr
I’m trying to get back into shape so I’ve started keeping up my fitday journal again. Here is a link for yesterday.
Image from Justin Liew via flickr
If you ever find yourself in Cacak, Serbia, you must MUST eat at Rimini. It servest Italian type food (pizza, pasta, etc…) along with sandwich fare (giros, hamburgers, etc…). They are the best restaurant for this type of food in Cacak.
Here are some pictures of what the outside looks like:
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And here is where it is: near the traffic circle where Cara Lazara, Dragise Misovica, and Kupsulina cross. Enjoy!
Not that anyone really is interested in the weather forecast for here, but it is dagonne HOT! I mean HOT. The highs for last week were all in the mid 90s and are supposed to be as high again this week. This is right on the heels of us wearing coats (we were wearing jackets 3 weeks ago).
For this time of year, this is fairly unusual but we’ll usually get a week of temps like this in August or early September.
Image is a screenshot from Aladin weather’s website this morning.
See that picture?! That was my breakfast this morning. And they tasted as good as they look there. (BTW, that isn’t a picture of one Cyndi made….it was taken by our friend who posted the reciepe on her blog). We have pictures, but we need to get them off the camera.
For the recipie, see Moje Ceska Kuchune: Strawberry Poptarts
Oh, yes, I realize the Pop Tart is probabaly a trademark for these things. But, it has also become a generic word for breakfast pastry thing that is filled with frosting (no, I don’t like the unfrosted ones…homemade or other). But, if you have a better word to describe these homemade ones, leave me a comment.
In the past few weeks, there have been a TON of news stories circulating on the web about facebook and privacy. Through about 500 km of driving, I decided I was going to try to do something and take advantage of facebook lists. I’m still, as of 8 May 2010, working through this; however, here are some steps you can take to improve your privacy on facebook.
But, in general, if you don’t want your friends boss total strangers city state country the internet to know about it, don’t put it up there. Even if you set everything right today, it is hard to tell what bug is lurking in the background or what change will be made tomorrow that will make this impossible.
For the details of this, click the read more link….
Image from francobouly via flickr
I’ve started writing an mp3 database, podcatcher, media player, rockbox syncher type thing. This got me to looking for some python modules on the internet today. I found one I was interested in called eyeD3. It looked good so I tried downloading it.
This is where I had the first problem. Usually, python modules come as precompiled exes for windows machines. There wasn’t one. No problem, I downloaded the .tar.gz file, used 7-zip to unpack it.
Now, to “install” modules this way, at this point, one usually runs something like “python setup.py install” from within the folder/directory where you unzipped the module. I tried that and got an error:
C:\eyeD3-0.6.17>c:\Python25\python.exe setup.py install
c:\Python25\python.exe: can’t open file ‘setup.py’: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
ARG.
Well, I went looking…sure enough, within my eyeD3-0.6.17 directory, there was a setup.py.in file. Easy…I just renamed it to setup.py. Reran the command and got this:
C:\eyeD3-0.6.17>c:\Python25\python.exe setup.py install
running install
running build
running build_py
package init file ‘src\eyeD3\__init__.py’ not found (or not a regular file)
creating build
creating build\lib
creating build\lib\eyeD3
copying src\eyeD3\binfuncs.py -> build\lib\eyeD3
copying src\eyeD3\frames.py -> build\lib\eyeD3
copying src\eyeD3\mp3.py -> build\lib\eyeD3
copying src\eyeD3\tag.py -> build\lib\eyeD3
copying src\eyeD3\utils.py -> build\lib\eyeD3
package init file ‘src\eyeD3\__init__.py’ not found (or not a regular file)
running install_lib
creating c:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\eyeD3
copying build\lib\eyeD3\binfuncs.py -> c:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\eyeD3
copying build\lib\eyeD3\frames.py -> c:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\eyeD3
copying build\lib\eyeD3\mp3.py -> c:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\eyeD3
copying build\lib\eyeD3\tag.py -> c:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\eyeD3
copying build\lib\eyeD3\utils.py -> c:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\eyeD3
byte-compiling c:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\eyeD3\binfuncs.py to binfuncs.pyc
byte-compiling c:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\eyeD3\frames.py to frames.pyc
byte-compiling c:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\eyeD3\mp3.py to mp3.pyc
byte-compiling c:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\eyeD3\tag.py to tag.pyc
byte-compiling c:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\eyeD3\utils.py to utils.pyc
running install_egg_info
Writing c:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\eyeD3-_PACKAGE_VERSION_-py2.5.egg-info
First glance it looks ok. So, I fire up IDLE and try to import the package. SHAZZBOT! It won’t work. I get told there is no such module. A quick google didn’t turn up anything so I started poking around.
Look at the output of the install above one more time. I missed it too:
package init file ‘src\eyeD3\__init__.py’ not found (or not a regular file)
So, I went looking around. Sure enough, the file it was griping about was ALSO named.py.in. Double Shazzbot. What kind of package is this?! Well, I rename the file, rerun the import, and everything appears to work.
I thought I would blog about this just incase someone else has these problems later on. I didn’t find anything on the web that would help me out or point me in the right direction.
Image from tambako the jaguar via flickr