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Friday, 17th November 2006

svnrepo 0.1. A Pythonic API to svn, wrapped around the low-level svn bindings.

# 9:30 am

New World Notes on the Second Life CopyBot controversy. Absolutely fascinating, especially the in-game protests.

# 9:42 am

Django on OS X setup notes. MySQLdb currently depends on Python 2.3.3 or higher.

# 4:40 pm

Freeing the postcode

UK postcodes have some interesting characteristics: a full six character post code identifies an average of around 14 house holds, and postcodes are mainly hierarchical—W1W will always be contained within W1 for example. They’re useful for a huge range of interesting things.

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