A rather fine month, overall, making slow and solid progress on a couple of fronts.

Jubilation! I now have a Python program that accepts a date in the form YYY-MM-DD, gets all the Overland data for that day from Compass, and builds a static map of my wanderings for that day. And it works. Here is today, so far.

Fine outing yesterday morning, to see the Raoul Dufy show at the Palazzo Cipolla down in the centre.

Someone whose website I follow has had a mildly nasty experience at the hands of what she calls a couple of British twats. Apparently two men (surprise) highjacked a thread in which she was asking for some specific help and advice to tell her, more or less, that she was basically stupid for contemplating the thing she wanted advice about.

Truly, the life of the amateur, cargo-cult coder, can be a vale of tears.

There’s a little program I use to keep a vague eye on how many people are looking at my websites. It is called Bise and is actually rather lovely because it gives a bird’s eye view without going into useless detail and without tracking anything. The big drawback is that it is written in Perl, a language I know little about. Still, by assiduous use of magic incantations, I have had it working nicely for a couple of years. Occasionally, however, something somewhere gets updated and error messages appear.