Nozell, rhymes with Oh Hell » blog http://nozell.com/blog Marc Nozell's random stuff -- mostly GNU/Linux, technology, genealogy, family Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:18:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Blogging @ 10 http://nozell.com/blog/2007/12/17/blogging-10/ http://nozell.com/blog/2007/12/17/blogging-10/#comments Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:45:51 +0000 Marc Nozell http://nozell.com/blog/2007/12/17/blogging-10/ I heard on NPR that today was the 10th anniversary of the blog. Turns out that this nozell.com/blog just over half that old — 5 years, 9 months, 12 days. Born on date: March 5th, 2002.

And I still have Jorn’s blog in my RSS aggregator: Robot Wisdom and the more frequently updated Robot Wisdom auxiliary

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I’ve not yet restored the style sheet header (this one) or added back some of the other doodads.

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I was reading rentzsch.com: Tales from the Red Shed about how much technorati.com values his blog. According to this applet…


My blog is worth $15,242.58.
How much is your blog worth?

Nice to see that someone values this lil’ blog.

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Name: SPAM PRODUCT | E-mail: SPAMMER@yahoo.com | URI: http://SPAM PRODUCT.com/ | IP: 195.206.123.33

HOUSTON – Hurricane Rita roared toward the Texas and Louisiana coasts early Friday, a major Category 4 storm that spurred a traffic-snarled exodus toward higher ground and fears it could cripple the heart of the nation’s petrochemical industry.
SPAM PRODUCT href

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use.

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# tar jxvf iPodder-linux-2.1.tar.bz2

# cd iPodder-linux

# sudo ./install.sh

(take the defaults)

The only glitch is wx libraries aren’t in the default PYTHONPATH, so set this environment variable either at the command line, or pop it in ~/.bashrc

export PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wx-2.5.3-gtk2-unicode/:$PYTHONPATH-unicode:$PYTHONPATH

Now clean up a little bit…


$ cd ../

$ rm -rf iPodder-linux iPodder-linux-2.1.tar.bz2

Now, you are all set to start iPodder!

$ (nohup iPodder&) # or add it to a menu bar button

Getting closer to not needing any special knowledge to get iPodder running on a GNU/Linux distro…

- – - – -

Just for searchers, this is the problem you see if you don’t set the PYTHONPATH:


$ iPodder
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "iPodderGui.py", line 38, in ?
import iPodderWindows
File "/opt/iPodder/iPodderWindows.py", line 4, in ?
import listctrl as listmix
File "/opt/iPodder/listctrl.py", line 296, in ?
EVT_DOPOPUPMENU = wx.PyEventBinder(wxEVT_DOPOPUPMENU, 0)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'PyEventBinder'

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http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=10745512&Mytoken=20050326161711

Apparently like a picture of me in my pjs as a kid.

Today I looked at my weblog and found over 2200 hits from the AOL proxy server on 27 March from 4am through 6pm. Fortunately AOL aggressively caches, so they were all HEAD hits which doesn’t pull down a new copy, just checks to see if it is the same version they already have.

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