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One disk is offline, the machine is offline, the server is offline and the owner
will be offline probably up until the start of 2008. See you next year.

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: AppJet Launches
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 07 20:46:21 GMT

“AppJet Launches! December 12, 2007
As of today, we.re officially launched!”

http://blog.appjet.net/

“AppJet is the easiest way to create a web app.
Just type some code into a box, and we’ll host
your app on our servers.”

http://appjet.com/

“An AppJet app is a server-side JavaScript program
that runs when a request is made to the app’s domain”

http://appjet.com/docs/intro

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: The Alphanum Algorithm in Python
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 07 01:12:21 GMT

And, in a heroic session of coding (the last couple of
hours really; yes, it took me that long, goddam regular
expressions…) the geezer comes up with the Python
version of the Alphanum algorithm…

The Alphanum Algorithm
http://www.davekoelle.com/alphanum.html

Alphanum Algorithm in Python
http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/alphanum.py

Yay for me, I still remember how to code….

— MV

PS – Yes, I later found the solution below but I had fun meanwhile…

def safeint(x):
try:
return int(x)
except ValueError:
return x
data.sort(key=lambda x: map(safeint, re.findall(“\d+|\D+”, x)))

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: 6am
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 07 06:16:21 GMT

“Six o’clock in the morning
Still sitting here pouring
The drinks till they’re gone”

Enuff ‘Z Nuff – Fly High Michelle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J94jLlr3uDE

“And though we still stay up all night
The mornings aren’t quite as bright

And who’s to say what its about
When John Wayne caught the last train out
And Spock and Kirk have had enough
And no one’s left to beam me up

Got to get back
Got to get back
I never meant to take it this far”

Jon Oliva (Savatage) – A Little Too Far
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns5sqACnk3g

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: More Than Words
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 07 05:46:21 GMT

Trolling the web and YouTube for stuff (what else to
do when you’re on an insomnia trend again?) I just
found out that Extreme have reunited and will be going
on tour and recording a new album during 2008.

http://news.bostonherald.com/track/celebrity/view.bg?articleid=1047228

Like they say in the press release, the world is in
dire need of serious rock n roll (instead of angry depressive
grunge remakes and stupid repetitive hip hop).

This post’s title was just to fool you: no mushy ballads
and no populist abuse of the portuguese flag in sight…

Extreme – Mutha (Don’t Wanna Go To School Today)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjUXyIdtTUs

Extreme – Get The Funk Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTk3b1oH0Co

Extreme – Decadence Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykRxlPd6U4k

— MV