Moshe Zadka (aka moshez) of Twisted fame has been interviewed for Europython 2003. Moshe submitted ten papers, and seven were accepted. Looks like Twisted is going to repeat the domination it had at PyCon earlier this year. Again, sad I can't go.

Justifying his entry in my aggregator, Jon Udell's OSCOM 2003 keynote is something I think everyone publishing on the web should read. It also makes me a bit sad we don't get these sorts of conferences being held in South Africa yet.

I'm finally happy enough with my web log analyser to let other people take a look at it. Basically, it is a highly configurable analyser that tries to exclude non-human visitors (Search Spiders, and so forth) from all processing, and to provide useful reporting. It can be downloaded from the sparsely populated project page.

Yay! Things got a bit confusing for a bit, with my current company approaching my new company by mistake (long story) about me staying for another two weeks. Luckily, that's no longer required. So, 12 more work days to go!

After about a week of evenings and some of the weekend, I'm finished the first phase of my web log analyser, currently codenamed ``sisynala''. You can see the output at http://mithrandr.moria.org/stats/. It is roughly based on the look of Mark Pilgrim's sitestats, and borrows and builds on the Agent/OS parsing and charting routines from it. More soon.

Jeremy and I decided to go out for supper tonight, and after a lot of checking of online and deadtree restaurant guides to no avail, we decided to go to Wangthai in Constantia. I'd give it 8/10 - good food, excellent service, nice setting, and reasonable price.

Well, one minute I'm cursing the lack of jobs in Cape Town, and the next I have about five opportunities pimped my way that weren't advertised. And one minute I'm planning to move to the UK, and the next I'm handing in my resignation and signing up elsewhere. So, 13 June is my last day with iTouch (at least in this iteration), and on the 17th I'm starting with Independent Online as Senior Devling. I'm really upbeat about it, but am trying to keep calm as I still have a month of hard grunt work ahead of me.

So, I've decided to write some short reviews on movies and books I've ingested. Nothing serious (me?!); my impressions rather than a research project. The first is ``100 Girls'', a teen comedy reminiscent of ``10 things I hate about you''. I'd give it a 8.5/10, mostly for things it probably doesn't aim to do - I found it dealt with the themes with both humour and an underlying seriousness to the message being sent. Jonathan Tucker is suitable as the lead, but Katherine Heigl (as the tomboy) and Emmanuelle Chriqui (as the art-school girl) are excellent and believable. A bit overdone in a few scenes, becoming almost slapsticky, but well constructed. It does, however, seem to be something you love or hate. Jeremy and I loved it.

Last night Jeremy and I went to the afskeidsparty (Farewell party) for the friend who introduced me to my current employ. He's off to lecture Computer Science at Rhodes University in a few weeks, but his fiancee is heading to Grahamstown this weekend to start her job there. His parting precipitated a number of changes we'd have liked to have seen much earlier, and which probably would have meant him staying. I'm worse off for his departure (the primary source of sanity and empathy in the environment), but am glad he's got this opportunity to do something worthwhile with his abilities.

StikiWiki has had about 50 downloads, and is mentioned in a few places (such as RestructuredText on zwiki), and even has patches sent to the Twisted mailing list. This may not be much, but I haven't advertised it at all. Had some downloads for bannergrab and some python SMPP stuff. Oh well, time to find time to spend working on software.