All Girls are the Same

I recently talked to our neighbor's three years old son. Not expecting much from the conversation, I asked him about girls in the kindergarten he had recently started attending. Here is his answer: "They are all the same. They just have different heads." I have been thinking about his answer since then. Most men need three times more time and couple of divorces to get to the same conclusion.

Good Data App Redressed!

Our app has got a new sexy outfit. Check it out.

Trying to Walk

I almost forgot how hard it is to learn things :-) My poor daughter in law.

This is how it looks like when one of your Flickr photos makes it :-)

3295 views in one day :-)

Czech Phrases You Might Need

How romantic ;-)

"Oranzova vznikne kdyz se nachcije do rudy."

Czech proverb very pertinent to the current Czech Democratic party leaders - dr. Rath & mr. Paroubek (not your average Obama). They are recalling Hitler's way to get out of the economic crisis. Unbelievable! I feel really ashamed for them and only hope that Czechs can't be so stupid to let them back to our government.

P.S.: I still can't believe I blogged Czech politics.

Setting Amazon S3 ACLs Programatically

I recently wrote a simple Python script for setting Amazon S3 ACLs. You might find it useful.

Usage:

setS3acl.py -a $AWS_ACCESS_KEY -s $AWS_SECURE_KEY -b "myBucket" -f myfile.txt -o $OWNER_AWS_ID "$USR1_AWS_ID:FULL_CONTROL" "$USR2_AWS_ID:READ"

Options

-a - your AWS access key
-s - your AWS secure access key
-b - AWS bucket name (no s3:// nor any other slashes)
-f - file name (no s3:// nor bucket prefixes, just the filename)
-o file owner (AWS ID)

Parameters:

[AWS_ID:FULL_CONTROL|READ|WRITE]

You'll need to use the AWS IDs to identify the user (the long and ugly Amazon account identifiers - e.g. a382d287d4d58222758254ddebac103f70e6f5b).

There are two Python files that you'll need:

* setS3acl.py
* S3.py

Look at the URL to find out where I store the scripts ($0.15 / GB / month) ;-)

Enjoy!