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Well, we got another cat this weekend! “Jake” was adopted from animal control, was already fixed and so could come home with us on Saturday.

Jake’s 1 year old, so is still basically a kitten, and he still has his claws - and he’s fast! I think we’ve been lulled into vulnerability by having older cats - Jake is a handfull! smile

Still, it’s great having two cats again and Jake is a real sweetie. Here’s hoping Lucy (current home owner, er, cat) will take to him!

Don’t cut off a cop in an unmarked SUV who’s driving his daughter to school in the morning. Bad idea.

I thought the street I was turning onto was two-lane at that point, and thought I was turning into the near lane - it was only after he slowed dramatically that I realized he had no where to turn into…. D’oh!!!

Anyway, when he asked if I knew why he’d pulled me over, I honestly told him that I’d cut him off, and apologized sincerely. He took my license and went back to radio it in - that’s when I noticed the young girl in the passenger seat in my rear-view mirror. Crap, I thought. I cut off a cop with his daughter in the car. I’m dead.

Fortunately he let me off with a warning. Whew. Thanks God.

I’m listening to mid-vintage U2 today: Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum. Eventually I’ll get to early-vintage: War, Boy, October. October is my fav of the early stuff: I spent many hours as a teen learning The Edge’s guitar licks on Gloria on an old classical guitar. (Slipping into nostalgia…)

Jim posted a useful link to a new list of all the magic variables that are used in python modules to make them play nice with scripts, other modules, and documentation systems. Included in the page is a link to something I’d never used before, the “amazing pydoc module” which looks super useful. Much nicer than typing help(foo) in the python intepreter IMO.

If you’re a small developer and have found a bug-tracking or issue-tracking system that you really like, please ping me at steve AT this site. I’m especially interested if you’re using it in a mainly Mac OS X environment.

I’m assuming something web-based, but am open to whatever may be working for you. Bugzilla is not an option. I’m a multi-purpose support person and I don’t want to install/configure/babysit Bugzilla.

Thanks!