I was just accepted to a university to start on my Ph.D. School doesn’t start until October but that’s fine. I don’t know how much time the Navy will give me to work on the degree anyways.

One of the reasons I haven’t posted in a long time is because I have been deployed so bloody much. Working on a Ph.D may clash with the schedule, not to mention the spotty Internet connection we have when we are at sea. > more <

For those of you tracking my book writing progress, you may be happy to know that I finally had a chance to find a file hosting site. Originally I was planning on creating a web page just for the downloads but that was more work than I wanted to do; I already have the blog for the book. Why make yet another site?

So, I found a file hosting service and uploaded the .zip file of the ebook and supporting source code files. Not to redirect you again, but in the interests of having one location for downloading, please visit Start Programming with Python for the direct download link. Also, I still have the torrent file link available if you prefer that method.

So, this is something that has bothered me for a long time. The military, and by extension the federal government, certainly appears to be run by incompetent imbeciles. Of course, nearly everyone knows this already so I’m probably not saying anything that isn’t already known. But I need to vent. > more <

I was talking to my wife today about how much I hate election years. You have a bunch of idiots spewing garbage all over TV while the media falls over itself dedicating hours of airtime restating the same “news” about the campaigns. > more <

I just created a new blog for my upcoming ebook: Start Programming with Python. Right now it’s mostly just a place holder, though I do provide links to my current tutorials. Once I have converted the tutorials to a rough draft of the book, I will post it there for community comments. That way I hope it will become much better than I could create just on my own, especially with all the changes that will be coming to the Python language in the next few months.

Bittorrent is an alternative to other peer-to-peer networks, such as Limewire. Peer-to-peer (P2P) is a way of distributing files between users, rather than downloading directly from a central server. This offloads the overhead of file distribution from organizations and moves it to the customers, making it cheaper to provide software files. > more <