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The 2011 PyCon AU

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Just read about this on ITWire, a must for Python enthusiasts “down under”: More than 250 users and developers, mostly from Australia and New Zealand, will get together at Sydney’s Masonic Center on August 20 and 21 and what they will probably talk about is web programming, business applications, game development, science and mathematics, education, testing, databases, documentation and all that good stuff. There will be presentations and workshops as well as a series of keynote lectures. The speakers include Raymond Hettinger, a core Python developer and experienced presenter, Mary Gardiner, doctoral candidate at Macquarie University with a specialty on computational linguistics, and Audrey Roy, a designer, developer and artist who apparently describes herself as the “world’s #1 orange and rainbow specialist”. Read the rest of this entry »

My Care

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Imagine you are in an accident and the paramedics find you unconscious in your car. They need to save your live yet know nothing about your medical history, blood type or allergies, pre-existing conditions, all that stuff. Can they use their latex gloves, they wonder, or are you allergic to latex? But then they find this little card in your wallet right next to your organ donor’s card (which now, they will never have to look at): Your MyCare-card. Via USB, they plug it into their board computer and recognize immediately: Yep, latex allergy…

Credit: Image courtesy of EPSRC

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