[portland] farewell Portland Pythoneers

[Brad Allen]

Hello Portland Pythoneers:

On Friday I am returning to my home in Dallas after nearly six weeks 
here in Portland; however I will still be available via email or 
chat, and may occasionally show up on the mailing list.

You can reach me via Jabber using my gmail account: bolderaft

So, who wants to take the reigns on the Meetup.com site? If I don't 
hear back on this during the next week I will transfer it to Kirby, 
since he managed the old Meetup site.

P.S. Sorry I didn't get a chance to have a Python meetup this week on 
the logging module, as some of us had discussed; finishing up my work 
here has involved some long hours. Nevertheless, I would encourage 
everyone to take a look at the logging module, built into the 
Standard Library. It is well worth the learning curve and is useful 
on almost every project. It allows you to do away with sprinkling 
your modules with print statements, and then having to clean up 
later. Instead, you can manage which modules are generating debug 
messages, putting one module under a microscope while making the 
others stop chattering. Another great feature: rotating log files.