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One of those “note-to-self” type posts, but this is something I always have problems remembering for some reason.
It’s quite easy to set a property in the request object using request.set(’key’, ‘value’) in your Python script. However, if you then redirect to another page this property is lost. What you need to do is something along [...]

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It’s been the week of bizarre spam this week. Check this one out: “Nazi toddlers ruined my birthday”:

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Just been checking the Gmail spam filter and have found possibly my favourite spam title ever: “This email is not for you because you are a loser”.
So, basically somebody is sending me an email they don’t want me to read and which I would have had no intention of reading anyway. Fair enough, but maybe [...]

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… and I’m losing.
It hasn’t bothered me up till now but today when I was at a loose end, I casually looked at some of my friends’ profiles to check how many other friends they had. Frankly I was astonished — 80, 90, hundreds? Is it really possible to have that many friends? I’m not [...]

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Just got back from Latitude 2008. Here are my festival highs:

Elbow and Sigur Rós on the Obelisk arena on Saturday night. Utterly amazing
Grinderman on Sunday. What can you say, just brilliant
Some other bands, notably Gravenhurst and Truckers of Husk
The Literature tent. What a great idea. Especially when it features Robin Ince and Ros Noble doing [...]

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