Archive for March, 2009
Spam and eggs
I was very astounished today when I read that the well-known term “spam” probably comes from a Monty Python’s sketch. The first sense of spam was a ” canned precooked meat product made by the Hormel Foods Corporation” it comes from Shoulder of Pork and Ham (cf wikipedia article). By watching the sketch one understands better why this […]
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Tags: mail, Monty Python
Jottit
While I was looking for python scripts on Aaron Swartz’s site I’ve discovered Jottit. Well, Jottit allows you to get “a website as easy as filling out a textbox“. I decided to test it and edited some posts quite easily. Indeed one good point is the possibility to use Markdown syntax. Another advantage is the simplicity and […]
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Tags: python
First post
Hi, I’m Damien. I’m just beginning a new blog on WordPress. I’ll probably put some thoughts, snippets, notes on it.
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Blogit plugin
I’m testing blogit, a Vim plugin written by Romain Bignon at http://dev.peerfuse.org/wiki/blogit. If you’re reading this then I managed to post from Vim. If you’re interested, have a look at this.
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Tags: vim, wordpress
