Christian Long christianmlong

Thistle and Shamrock radio streams

On October 2, 2024, Fiona Ritchie brought to a close 43 years of broadcasting The Thistle and Shamrock her iconic weekly Celtic music radio show. There will be no more new episodes. It's the end of an era.

You can listen to her farewell episode archived on the NPR Music site. Some other old episodes are there too.

Fiona's Thistle Radio channel is still playing on SomaFM.

2015

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2015-07-16 12:20, Homebrew and Postgres

I spent some time figuring out how to install several different versions of PostGresql on my mac. With Homebrew nowadays, you do this

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

I am christianmlong on github.
I am christianmlong (https://keybase.io/christianmlong) on keybase.
I have a public key whose fingerprint is 0DDB CD19 3B2B 8AD6 AAF9 A5B4 031A 48F5 617A F959

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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	(twisted) C:\Users\Me\twisted-test>pip install --no-use-wheel twisted
	Collecting twisted
	Downloading Twisted-15.0.0.tar.bz2 (4.4MB)
	100% \|################################\| 4.4MB 73kB/s
	Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): zope.interface>=3.6.0 in c:\pythonenvs\twisted\lib\site-packages (from twisted)
	Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): setuptools in c:\pythonenvs\twisted\lib\site-packages (from zope.interface>=3.6.0->twisted)
	Installing collected packages: twisted
	Running setup.py install for twisted
	C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Programs\Common\Microsoft\Visual C++ for Python\9.0\VC\Bin\cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /MD /W3 /GS- /DNDEBUG -IC:\Python27\include -IC:\PythonEnvs\twisted\PC /Tcconftest.c /Foconftest.obj
	conftest.c

	Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
	(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
	Clink v0.4.3 [git:258fc3] Copyright (c) 2014 Martin Ridgers
	http://mridgers.github.io/clink

	C:\Users\Me>workon.bat f8

	(f8) C:\Users\Me\Documents\Documents\Computer\Projects\git\flake8>pip list
	astroid (1.3.4)
	colorama (0.3.3)