I definitely need to come up with a better name. Event-JSON is a BSD licensed JSON-RPC 2.0 server written in C with libevent2. Please direct patches to the project page on github.

Source: http://github.com/rphillips/obelisk

[Updated: Link]

Updated to use Parser2 for Ubiquity 0.5

The Mozilla Foundation in late 2008 created an experiment called Ubiquity for Firefox, which enables users to hit commands on their keyboards to do common tasks quickly and easily.

I should have wrote this plugin a long time ago, but today I got around to adding a BSD Man Pages plugin. Enjoy…

BSD Man Pages Ubiquity Plugin

I’ve been working with Andrew Kuchling at the official planet.python.org… We have worked to merge our two configuration files and he has setup an email alias at planet python.org for people to send planet updates to. I will enable the domain changes within the next couple days. Users of planetpython.org should not have to do anything if their RSS readers support redirects.

It is hard to believe I started this website nearly five years ago. I look forward to the migration being complete. Here is to looking forward to another 5 years of great Python blogging.

Tonight I was reading an article in The Week magazine (April 3, 2009, Volume 9 Issue 406) entitled “Forgotten baby syndrome.” The article excerpts a story from the Washington Post Magazine regarding people’s experiences in leaving their children in the car accidentally. As a new father I can’t even imagine the anguish these people must feel.

I am an engineer and this is my solution (License: Creative Commons Share-Alike). Every car has a driver’s seat belt alarm. This alarm could be sounded with a unique pattern for a child in the back seat. How does the computer know there is a child is in the back seat? From the car’s computer there is a lead (or possibly more if more than one car seat is present) which is routed through the other wires leading to the back seat to right behind the car seat. Typically in newer cars there is a metal bar in the seat crack in which the seat gets latched into. In this area the wire from the computer is routed, so it can plug into the car seat The car seat contains a simple circuit within the buckle. Most buckles I have seen have the buckle from the seat bottom connecting to two prongs from the child’s torso area. These two prongs and the buckle complete the simple circuit.

The red line is the circuit coming from the car, going into the child seat, and completing back into the car. When the drivers starts the car they will hear a double chime telling them the safety system is working. The driver’s seat belt warning alarm is triggered when the car is turned off and the child safety circuit is complete (ie: a child strapped into the car seat).

This solution doesn’t seem like it would be all that expensive.