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Mon Jan 23 21:27:05 2012 GMT: The State of the World Economy in 2012 @ London School of Economics
Wed Jan 18 07:51:05 2012 GMT: La traviata @ Royal Opera House
Sun Dec 11 20:46:32 2011 GMT: Introduction to Databases
I have been taking Stanford's Introduction to Databases online course and just finished the final exam. Guess, I did quite well - got 20/20 on the final exam, 18/18 on the midterm exam and full points on all the assignments (although I have to admit that I had to redo 2 assignments because I got one answer wrong the first time). Just have to wait for the statement of accomplishment now... :-)
Sun Dec 11 20:35:29 2011 GMT: The Nutcracker @ Royal Opera House
Been at a performance of The Nutcracker at the Royal Opera House today.
Sat Nov 26 19:18:26 2011 GMT: Manon @ Royal Opera House
Continuing with another ballet, it was Manon at the Royal Opera House today.
Sun Nov 20 14:35:06 2011 GMT: The Geeky Way of Snapping up Opera Tickets
When tickets to Der Ring des Nibelungen were released last month, I was too late to the party and didn't get any ticket as they sold out in a couple of minutes. But then I became curious if they actually released all tickets or if more tickets might become available.
So I had a look at how the Flash-based booking site worked (by using tcpdump) and discovered that there are some XML-based APIs available, see http://www.roh.org.uk/svc/syos.asmx. Most of these are pretty self-explanatory, so I put together a Python script to query available seats for a particular performance and output the result in the Atom Syndication Format. This integrates nicely with JabRSS to notify me of any seats becoming available.
And indeed, this week I got a notification from JabRSS about available tickets - so I was able to quickly snap up a ticket for Der Ring des Nibelungen (before anyone else noticed).
Manually checking every day would have been another option, but that would have been much less fun.
Sat Nov 19 22:56:13 2011 GMT: Asphodel Meadows / Enigma Variations / Gloria
I have just been to Asphodel Meadows / Enigma Variations / Gloria at the Royal Opera House - surprisingly, all three parts were quite good.
Sat Nov 12 20:58:38 2011 GMT: London Perl Workshop 2011
Sat Nov 12 00:26:17 2011 GMT: The Sleeping Beauty @ Royal Opera House
Sat Nov 05 23:55:28 2011 GMT: La sonnambula @ Royal Opera House
Wed Nov 02 20:17:37 2011 GMT: Poor Rail Conditions
Sat Oct 29 16:10:04 2011 GMT: Towards Python 3
