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Here’s this year’s joke: summer. It’s like last spring was confused and acted all summery, and summer, autumn and winter all think they’re autumn. Still makes for good photos though ;-)

Panorama of Amsterdam Noord Alex over at Print Chuck is using my FlickrAPI implementation on their website. He offered me a free print as a thank you note for writing the software!

Fokker, when he was 21 years old, flew a plane over Haarlem, around the Sint Bavo church. This photo was taken at the centre of that church. Take a look at the ceiling, it really is amazing!

UPDATE 2019: I have to fix the panorama viewer. Fokker, when he was 21 years old, flew one of these planes over Haarlem, around the Sint Bavo church. Today it is exhibited in that very same church.

Python-RSA version 3.0 has been released. A lot of things have been improved: Much more secure Following industrial standard PKCS#1; this means compatibility with OpenSSL Ability to create and verify detached signatures More elegant method of encrypting large files Ability to save and load keys in PEM and DER format Extensive documentation More efficient key generation Check the Python-RSA page for more information!

Today I found out that I’m not a Java programmer. The more I look at programming languages in general, the more I find Java to be clumsy and short-sighted. For a project at my work I tried Wicket.

Today all of a sudden I couldn’t commit to CVS any more. Eclipse refused to accept my SSH key passphrase. When trying to load the file, Eclipse tells me ‘failed to decrypt id_rsa’.

Today I gave my first lighting course, Strobist-style. As I’ve never done such a thing like that before it was a little unstructured. However, we were able to cover a lot of ground, and everybody went home feeling they had learned a lot.

I’m thrilled to let you know that I’ve just added encryption and decryption with random padding to my Python RSA module. The code has become much more secure than it was before, and also makes it capable of encrypting and decrypting binary data!

I fell in love with Fuji Neopan 1600 film, only to hear that it’ll be taken out of production soon (or already has been). Fortunately I could stack up on some rolls, but they’ll run out eventually.