Journal for Wed, 24 Mar 2010

Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Real problems motivate me to be in action better than the imagined ones. There is an opportunity in every challenge thrown at you. As someone said, "May you have bigger problems!".

Links

A fascinating historical read about one man's bravery in standing up to his principals and/or his interests.

I am sure there is a takeaway in this advice which is valuble in real life situations involving more than two parties in a conversation.

Programming

I have started using bpython interpreter for programming in python.

Debian Lenny does not have python2.6 in it's repositories. To install python 2.6 from source, install these packages first.

$ sudo apt-get install libreadline5-dev libbz2-dev tcl8.5-dev
tk8.5-dev libsqlite3-dev