This is what I was going to blog before. I got my Buffy Season One DVD Boxed Set. Yeah!! After doing some searching, it seems as if seasons two and three are already available in region 4. Weird. Maybe it's not syndicated as much there, so there's more of a market? Maybe the same goes for Friends? (You can get Friends season DVDs overseas also.)

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23:53 (utc-5)

 

I just got a very nice e-mail tonight from someone in Riverton, Wyoming.

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Hey, my dog is ok! She'd been feeling unwell since during my trip to VA. I came home and she wasn't herself. We had our vet come to look at her on Monday, and she said she'd need to do x-rays, and they were scheduled for today. Turns out her gall bladder was blocked, and had grown to an abnormally large size. So my dog had a gall-bladder-rectomy this evening, and last I heard she was coming out of the anasthesia and doing well. This was only the third gall bladder removal that our very-excellent vet has done in her 37 some odd years of practice. I'm glad my dog should be ok... as long as she makes it through the night.

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Darn, I was going to blog something but don't remember what it was.

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Oh no, the Deitels are at it again. Via the Python Daily-URL, Python How to Program. Notice the "introducing XML" on the cover? In their C++ version of the book, they have "with UML" featured prominently on the cover, yet I couldn't find where they actually covered it in the book! At least they seem to cover XML in this book, just going by the table of contents.

Also notice the "Bonus" chapters, which have practically nothing to do with Python, including "26. Bonus: Introduction to XHMTL [sic]: Part I." (typo). And since when is "Cascading Style Sheets™ (CSS)" trademarked?

I really hate the Deitel books. I won't call them useless, but they're close to it.

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Slashdot reports, 'Indiana Jones 4' finally a go. ""It was always about getting the right script, and now we have it," he said. Over the years, a number of screenplays and rumours have circulated through movie-buff circles, involving everything from Jones fending off an alien invasion to discovering the lost continent of Atlantis." ... "In June 2000, it was reported that "The Sixth Sense" writer-director M. Night Shyamalan had been hired to write a screenplay for a sequel to be filmed in 2002."

I'm much happier about this than I am about Terminator 3. I think they have a better chance of making a good Indiana Jones movie than they do squeezing a third Terminator movie into the plot of the series.

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