Archive for September, 2008

Mollom updated to reflect API document changes

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

As you may be aware of, the Mollom API has undergone some small changes in order to better deal with load balancing. A side effect of this is that the Python module I wrote and maintain had to be updated as well. Meanwhile, I uncovered a few bugs, the most important of which resulted in the inability to handle empty server lists provided by the Mollom service. As far as use of the module is concerned, there are not really any changes, except one. The MollomBase class now provides a non-empty method that implements a basic callback cache strategy for the server list.

You can find the tarball containing the modules and the darcs repository here. To pull from the darcs repository, use darcs get http://itkovian.net/darcs/python_mollom.

LHC news

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

I am getting really sick of all the bullshit that is being said by journalists about the LHC. For one, they are not deliberately trying to create a black hole. The question why people are ‘afraid’ is just as much crap. If the journalists would not make so much noise, nobody would be afraid of anything.

I had expected a bit more from the VRT journalists, even though the program (Terzake) deteriorated since last year. I also hate how they interrupt the interviewed person.

Family house

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

Somebody thought my grandma’s house (and her parents’ house before her) worthwhile to shoot: