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Author Archives: Graeme
Belated musings on a marathon
The 2012 Melbourne Marathon was on Sunday, October 14. I was very happy to be there. My training this year had been fairly consistent, but suffered a serious blow the week before the marathon when I came down with a … Continue reading
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Notes from MPUG, October 2012
Twenty people came to the MPUG meeting at Inspire 9 this month for an evening of Python and pizza. PyCon AU 2013 The dates for PyCon AU 2013 have been set: July 6 – 7, 2013, which will coincide with … Continue reading
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fenix rising
I have tracked my running and cycling distances for years as a useful input into my training plans. Looking back, it has been an interesting journey from paper to the point where I now run with (what feels like) a … Continue reading
Running the Brisbane Ranges
The Melbourne Marathon is rapidly approaching, which means the number of long runs is also rapidly climbing! As a change from pounding bike paths and trails around Melbourne, I decided to head to the Brisbane Ranges National Park, which is … Continue reading
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Notes from MPUG, September 2012
These are my notes from last week’s Melbourne Python Users Group meeting at Inspire 9. We had a great turnout, probably due to the combination of last month’s PyCon AU and Richard’s guest spot on Byte Into It the week … Continue reading
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It’s never good when they call it a “killer hill”
The third in the series of Salomon trail run series was held on August 26. There were two courses, a short 7.3km and a long 14.3km, with both courses starting and finishing at Silvan Reservoir, running the hills of the … Continue reading
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Seriously? Grosse Point Blank?
There is a wonderful shop-front window in Brunswick St, North Fitzroy that displays people’s contributions, slipped under the door, on various themes. The current theme, “Top five anything”, has been running for a while and now has dozens of lists:
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PyCon AU 2012 sprints
The last two days of PyCon AU were devoted to sprints. There were active sprints for CPython, Django, Zookeepr, Requests, Persona, and various other projects. There were about seventy people on the Monday, and forty on the Tuesday. Chris N … Continue reading
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PyCon AU 2012 highlights
PyCon AU 2012 was held this last weekend (Aug 18 – 19) in beautiful Hobart. Here are some of my highlights… There were two great keynotes by Mark Ramm and Kenneth Reitz. The biggest problem of PyCon AU? Too many … Continue reading
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