Europython, weather and all things good

It's sweltering here in Birmingham, I'm here with Mick at the Europython conference. It's all going well, with keynotes from Corey Doctorow, Bruce Eckel, to name but a few. Saw the cool collectible Dutch €5 coin, an original Enigma machine, things that gives geeks the giggles, well, for me anyway. :D

It's utterly bizarre to find out that it's bucketing back at home (Indo's breaking news here and here, it's the complete opposite over here. I just hope it all goes away when I go home on Saturday.

So I'm taking it easy today, found a board game shop under the conference centre, gonna have to check that out at some point. All I need to remember now is attend the openspace about hosting EuroPython, it could be possible for Dublin, but I will need some help...

What's with the b0rked print.css on some sites?

Ach, been having problems with AIB's new website and The Irish Times, and all because of the fricking print.css. Mick found a way to get AIB to load (I used the same method for Irish Times site), by using Safari's activity monitor and checking the files being loaded, when a file is found having problems loading, add that to filter in Adblocker Plus in Firefox. And Bob's your uncle, it loads! *still grumbling about the crap sites with their crappy print.css not loading. AIB tech support knows already, as I mailed them about it, so up to them to get it fixed.

That explains the teddy mystery

I was walking from our new house in Phoenix Park Racecourse to the apartment through Phoenix Park, and as we were nearing Dublin Zoo, I noticed alot of kids carrying more than one teddy bear. I made a passing comment but paid no more heed to it till I read the news this morning. What I witnessed was the gathering for the teddy bear picnic at Dublin Zoo. That explains everything, and not just because teddies is suddenly back in fashion. :D

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