Monthly Archives: November 2007

Gmail greasemonkey

The new Gmail has a greasemonkey API :)

Parallelism

I finally started some work on adding parallelism to bookPrices… I hate multi-threading and didn’t even try to start an implementation until I read effbot’s notes on the Wide Finder benchmark—and found out that Python provides a ridiculously simple synchronized Queue for use in the producer/consumer pattern. Will publish the changes as soon as I [...]

Instant Custard

We made some custard yesterday, of instant variety. It wasn’t too good, and we ate it hot. But nonetheless it gave me a nice feeling of satisfaction to eat something that I made. Cooking seems like some sort of alchemy to me. I can only cook a very few things, and almost all of them [...]

Pending books

I ordered some books on the 31th… I hope they get delivered by the time I reach Mumbai.