Programming in Python, aka Pythonic Math 8629, is a go for this spring, so I'm gearing up again, dunno how much I'll blog of this one, having done semi-exhaustive retrospectives a few times already.[1][2] Intersection with UK version of Math Wars at Pycon was fun, still writing little modules around Cuisenaires, some early source code, once you've got your feet wet with the rods, fractions, other age-appropriate materials, e.g. Peter Pan, Over the Hedge, Flushed Away... Narnia, or in our household, Spirited Away (a big hit).[3] Currently working on contrasting bare CGI versus the newer XMLhttpResponse approach, first intro'd by BigSoftie in ActiveX, since standardized to non-ActiveX browsers. Using I Ching again, in keeping with newsy themes (olympics etc. -- mostly about Unicode). None of this is new material, just wanting to contribute my share to the literature. Trucked the XO to my native Quaker habitat recently, where we have our measure of geeks in training, both XX and XY.[4] Some overlap twixt my SA: and these gnubees sometimes. Had a good meeting of PPUG.[5] A funny moment was when this slender newcomer wanted the Pycon swag Jason was being so generous with, but our default T-shirt sizes start at size L (with no upper limit?). An occupational hazard, and a bias we should work on. Standing workstations make sense, even if not on a tredmill. Or the idea for a leaden mouse might be good (heavy like, not saying made of element Pb, which could be a health hazard). I've been watching Pycon Youtubes, not just this year's. What I suggested on the Europython list is maybe focusing on getting speakers their audio tracks, as so often the cameras are unmanned and don't track, plus even if they do, slides come across better if added later, spliced with live video track.[6] Kirby 4D [1] http://saturdayacademy.org/ [2] http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2006/11/more-pythonic-mathematics.html [3] http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2008/03/disambiguation.html [4] http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2008/04/quaker-spectrum.html [5] http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2008/04/ppug-200848.html [6] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/europython/2008-April/006772.html