The Dream

Well done me

I've reached the end of the internet! Well, not quite. I've reached the end of my posts in Google Reader, which is a really nice app.

Basically, you can pile in a load of rss feeds from all over the web and it then sorts them into one long feed (not so unusual). Then you can add it to your google ig page - neat - and add a bookmarklet to firefox so you can click through the posts in the feed - neater.

You can even categorise (tag) your feeds, so you only see what you want to. The only criticism of it is that it doesn't filter/merge posts. I don't want to see lots of posts on the same thing from different news vendors (or the same one if they provide different feeds), I'd rather Google Reader merge them up, and show a single post for that thread.

Python Course

So tomorrow is the big day: I'm running my first course. This one is for the ACRC and is called "Data Analysis With Python" (you can download the slides and material from my CERN home page) and I hope it'll be good.
It was quite hard cramming everything into it (and maybe next time it'll be shorter) and the description is pretty broad. I decided to keep things fairly brief, and just point the attendees in the direction of useful material. I'll let you know how it goes....