I don’t feel that I have the economic wisdom or experience to provide commentary on the recent debates over the proposed economic bailout. However, I do have the ability to comment about a good tie selection. Warren Buffett should be commended for sporting a dominant fat knot on this cnn.com article. For the sake of future fat knot acquisitions, I hope our leaders are able to continue working toward the best solutions for these very difficult problems.

My wife picked up this tie for me in Gaffney, SC at an outlet store. Gaffney, SC is home to the Giant Peach. It’s also the place where Stacey G grew up. I wonder if any PMPs planned the construction of the peach? Imagine dealing with schedule compression or late night escalation during the construction of a Giant Peach. Do you think anyone involved with the construction asked: “When will we learn?” Yeah — it probably doesn’t matter now. It’s a cool water tower and this is a good fat knot… The Stacey G Fat Knot.

I’ve been reading Simon Willison’s blog for quite a while now. He frequently posts interesting ideas and links. Yesterday, I noticed that he had a link to videos from DjangoCon 2008 on YouTube. So far, I’ve watched Schema Evolution and Reusable Apps. I learned a lot from both videos. I’ve only been working with Django for a few months (mostly for this blog) and I’m really enjoying it. I think it’s really cool that they’ve posted videos from the Django conference so people that couldn’t attend (the conference or a particular talk) can check them out (and learn something). Living in rural South Carolina, there are not (currently) a lot of local opportunities to exchange ideas with other python developers. I hope that more (python related) conferences follow Django’s lead and post conference videos. Great job!