Years ago I did basic genealogical research on my family tree. My plan has always been to revisit the research when I had more free time (as in, being retired). A friend of mine recently recommended findagrave.com. I checked it out and was so …
Save this sweet deliciousness for a special occassion. It is nowhere to be found in any healthy eating regimen.
Python has a "batteries included" philosophy that means a lot of useful things are included in their standard library. By no means have I plumbed the depth of what's included. I still run across things that are extremely useful and fit exactly what I need.
Today I encountered the …
I have reached level 2 on Project Euler! This is a big achievement for me.
Project Euler is a very challenging math/programming problem website. It has been a very long time since I took any math classes, so these problems are definitely challenging for me …
2017 was a another good reading year. I discovered several new authors and book series that kept me entertained as I completed 64 books during the year. It seemed to be a year of reading book series as you will see in some of the selections below. A part of …
I am moving my site from Wordpress to Pelican. It is not that there is anything wrong with Wordpress. It is a major tool in the web world. But, it is really overkill for my little blog. Pelican, on the other hand, is a static site generator …
No, this is not about John Grisham's third novel or a 1993 movie starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington. Instead, I'm referring to a static web site generator application named "Pelican".
So, what is a static site generator? The concept is kind of a throw-back to the earlier days …
This is easily found elsewhere on the web, but I did it wrong the first time. So, note to self!
The command to create a requirements.txt file is:
$ pip freeze > requirements.txt
The catch is... first, navigate to the folder where you want the file …
Note to self: check out these python libraries. They sound interesting.
This topic is based on the book, “More Than Grasshoppers: Reclaiming Your God-Given Identity.” by Lee Ann Alexander and Joel Alexander.
If ever there was a time in history when God directly revealed his power, it was when he brought the children of Israel out of Egypt …