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Now that I’ve got your attention, I just wanted to share a tiny humorless anecdote.

I was driving down University Ave. tonight on my way to Stanford and I noticed a bunch of youngish, much-too-goodlooking-for-their-own-good hipsters milling around on the sidewalk.

A little further down on the sidewalk there were another bunch of people sitting on lawn chairs working on PowerBooks. My eyes scanned a few more feet down the road and I saw a TV news van as well as a PodTech van.

Then it dawned on me. They’re waiting in line for iPhones!

I felt old and completely out of touch. I don’t use a Mac and I didn’t buy an iPod (mine was a gift). I’m neither proud nor embarrassed to tell you that there isn’t any music on it, only geek podcasts.

I read about the strange people that were camping out in line to be the first to buy an iPhone, but to me they all seemed like Paris Hilton paparazzi. Something you only read about but couldn’t imagine actually seeing (or wanted to see).

But lo and behold. Right before my very eyes. There they were, the iPhonarazzi.

We all know the real news tomorrow is that GPLv3 will be launched. Maybe there will be some GPLv3arrazzi.

UPDATE: Here’s the video podcast from earlier in the day.

I just had a chance to read Guido van Rossum’s very interesting Python 3000 status update. For those of you who don’t know yet: Python 3000 (Py3k) will break backwards compatibility. Not even an attempt will be made to preserve it.
For everyone developing a more substantial project in Python – for example we here at [...]

Marc Andreessen has a fabulous post deconstructing private equity investments. It reveals a lot of the risks and describes how some basic financial engineering might provide similar returns. My favorite is:

What part of the excess return over the S&P 500 index that you are expecting to generate is due to your use of [...]

I stopped by the Cambridge Python Meetup last night. There were about 10 attendees.
We started with a review of the recent Python events in the area. We talked about the MassTLC Open Source Summit and Doug Napoleone also covered the DjangoDotJune meeting in Northhampton. These reviewes triggered discussions about GPL V3 and [...]

I’m in the Boston area this week, so I decided to catch some local open source and Python events.
The Mass TLC held a 1/2 day Open Source summit on June 19th. I presented in the Lightning rounds. Andy Updegrove has a good post on the event [...]