2009

.. a poem by (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley) comes to mind. I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies…

Usually, if you were to use something like, `` class testform(forms.Form): n = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=Models.objects.filter(id=32773), empty_label="All") you’ll end up with a drop down box populated with “M objects” rather than a field from…

Woo, finally. (http://cluud.in) is a new service to help you discover new places and follow conversations about your favorite places in your city. This means you can plan out where to go in real time – getting input from everyone who has talked about…

From an address on “America’s place in the world” that (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry) – one of my favorite comedians of all time – gave at (http://www.stephenfry.com/blog/2009/07/04/americas-place-in-the-world/) (which you should totally…

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5cfd7324-762b-11de-9e59-00144feabdc0.html Interesting analysis on how Asia has faith in western economic theories, but none in their management practices. Moreover, we’re improving trade with all kinds of FTAs being signed…

Just to put it out there, but David Cramer – who developed the spectacular django-sphinx project – omits a crucial piece of information needed to install Sphinx into your Django models. So if you find that everything works perfectly well, but your…

A quote from Gao Xiqing, the man who runs the China investment corporation (and manages $200 Billion in funds for their sovereign fund). Here’s something I came across in the (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200812/fallows-chinese-banker<br%20/>%0A…

So, what exactly are we talking about? The other day, someone pointed me to an article about how a small section of the Indian population has stashed away close to $1.5 trillion(!) in secret swiss bank accounts. Curious that I am, I promptly went…