I've lately acquired a habit of using ctrl-backspace when editing text. I also tend to use alt quite a bit when moving around text, especially if said text consists of sexps. And suddenly I see why the DontZap option in the X server is a pretty good idea.

So we got married last Saturday. Yay! The night after, we started suffering from what appeared to be food poisoning. My mother and one of the bridesmaids had the same problem. That was not so cool. I ended up staying home sick until Wednesday, Minttu the whole week.

The honeymoon will have to wait a bit, though. We're going to Florence, and we'd rather go there when it's not freezing in northern Italy.

I recently read some old stuff on Phillip J. Eby's blog, and the Python Is Not Java entry really hit home. I'm not a new Python programmer, I've been using it from around 1996 or so, about as long as Java. But every now and then I see Java-isms creep into my code. It's usually after I try some fancy approach and later on come to wonder why my code stinks. I've been especially guilty about writing completely unnecessary getters and setters and doing (or even converting module level functions to) class methods that end up being just painful to use.

The parts that are more Lisp-inspired tend to be a whole lot better. I've never yet regretted returning a function from a function. Too bad about Python's lame lexicals.