Just got the rejection notice for my PyCon submission on pyjamas. The non-positives all had a single criticism: pyjamas isn't mature enough.
I don't quite agree—pyjamas is actually quite far along. Probably didn't help that I conservatively called the last release 0.1 even though it was probably more of a 0.5 :-)
They had a lot more submissions than places, though, so it looks like it will be a great programme, with or without pyjamas.
UPDATE (2006-11-30): The above makes me sound more upset than I am. I know how hard it is to draw a cut line when there are many more submissions than places so I don't envy the job the committee had. I was actually quite pleased that (lack of) maturity was the only negative reason given. That's easy to fix :-) But I'm still wondering if the 0.1 designation counted against me.
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On Sunday, I thought I'd try out the online version of the Rosetta Stone language learning software. It works out much cheaper than buying the CD-ROM.
It uses Macromedia Shockwave which, it turns out, is not available as a Universal Binary yet, only PPC.
So to run the Rosetta Stone language learning software, I have to use Apple's Rosetta.
Funny, I thought. But then to top it all off, HB suggested we go to the British Museum that afternoon. And guess what we saw...
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