So, I was looking for a picture of a tree and found some nice pictures of fractal trees. That, I thought, would be interesting to code. Here are some of the results. This was coded in C#, each element ( a trunk/branch/twig ) is a fractal, a twig with a length < 3 aborts the […]
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I had a problem with some URLs that we found on someones website. They looked like this: <a href=”http://example.com/../../../path/page.html”>, here is the same link: test. Notice that when you mouse over it, Firefox normalizes the URL so it looks correct. Using urlparse in Python: print urlparse.urljoin( ‘http://site.com/’, ‘/path/../path/.././path/./’ ) ‘http://site.com/path/../path/.././path/./’ How, poopy. So, we need to do better than that. The os module […]
Continue ReadingBiffy Clyro Means
I like Puzzle, the new music from Biffy Clyro. I really like it. But what the feck does Biffy Clyro mean? They are from Scotland, so I thought maybe it was where they came from. Nope. I did a lot of searches but could find nowt. Eventually I took Trays advice and just asked google, […]
Continue ReadingGlass Shark Gig
Wow! Glass Shark at the Blue Bar on Saturday was freekin amazin. The band is made up of three dudes, one on lead guitar, on drummer and one bass. But for three guys they make a hell of a lot of noise . I like. I like a lot. They mostly played their own songs, but they also did […]
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