Check-ins and located tweets and photos for this day
- The undercover quanitifed self
Hamish MacGibbon writes in the London Review of Books (subscribers only) about his father, James, who was a spy for the Russians during and after World War II. There’s an account of the papers MacGibbon eventually gained access to which detailed the security services’ monitoring of the family during this period:
In Periodicals on 27 June 2011. Permalink
- Using virtualenv with Django on WebFaction
Today I set up a site on WebFaction’s hosting for the first time. Initially it was lovely — the control panel makes it easy to set up a wide arrange of different kinds of hosting environments. I got pip and virtualenv working fine, but I wasn’t sure how to have the site run within a virtualenv.
- Links for Monday 27 June 2011
- LRB · Daniel Soar · Short Cuts
- Fascinating, brief, look at the US government's interest in analysing metaphors in foreign languages for security purposes. Well worth a read if you write, talk or think.