My instructor assigned me some articles to read and some videos to watch about computer ethics. One of the video is Kevin Kelly on the next 5000 days change of our web at EG 2007 Conference in Los Angeles, California.

At the beginning of Kelly’s speech, he said we will have only one machine exists in our world. All of personal devices, such as computer, cell phone, etc., are just the terminals of that machine. The machine is more reliable than we have ever met. It never crash. And I suddenly thought something other than his topic about a never crashing machine.

Photo @ University Centre at University of Manitoba.

Google最近（也不是那么近啦）升级了CalDAV服务，支持了iCal和Google Calendar的双向同步。过去有文章介绍过CalDAV，但按照文章的说明设置后，只能把Google Calendar上的日历给保存到iCal里，没法把iCal里添加的项目“反向”同步到Google Calendar服务器上。这样的功能几乎没什么用。现在已经没有问题了，经我测试，无论在Google Calendar上还是在iCal上添加一个新事件，在设定的时间后，事件就会出现在对方的日历上。

This post a a Chinese translation of Guido van Rossums‘s article “Personal History – part 1, CWI” on his blog named “The History of Python”.

原文地址：http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/01/personal-history-part-1-cwi.html

Python的早期开发始于位于阿姆斯特丹的一个名为CWI的研究机构。CWI是Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science的荷兰语拼写的首字母。CWI是个有趣的地方，它接受荷兰政府的教育部门和其它研究拨款，做学术等级的计算机科学和数学研究。任何时间那里都有很多博士生，老辈的人或许还能记得它的原始名称：数学中心。在这个名字下，最有名的发明或许就是Algol 68了。

This post is a Chinese translation of Guido van Rossum‘s article “A Brief Timeline of Python”.

原文地址：http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/01/brief-timeline-of-python.html

Python的开发和流行是和许多其它的动态（和开源）编程语言如Tcl、Perl和后来的Ruby的同时代的。为了给Python一个更好的历史看法，下面这张表展示了Python的发布历史。在早期我没有严格的记录每件事，因此那时的日期并不精确。

这篇文章几天前就想写了，可惜一直不知道从何说起。其实现在也不太清除该怎么说，但对一个将死之人的缅怀，总不能等人死后再说。

读的blog多了，就不容易对自己留下的评论进行有效的追踪。我是一个RSS的重度用户，几乎从来不亲自去blog页面上看文章，而且至今也不理解为什么有人会宁愿花费时间去一个一个blog的看。像我这种人，要让我找个地方记住我在哪个blog上留了言，并时不时的去看看有没有人做出相应的回复，是完全不可能的事情。因此当我知道有方法可以自动跟踪这些留言时，别提多高兴了。

This post is for translating an article named “Python’s Design Philosophy” by Guido van Rossum.

原文地址：http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/01/introduction-and-overview.html

介绍

Python是目前最流行的几种动态编程语言（包括Perl、Tcl、PHP，以及新成员Ruby）之一。尽管它经常被认为是一门“脚本式”语言，但它确实是一门通用的编程语言，就像Lisp和Smalltalk以及其它语言一样。在今天，Python被用于从用一次就扔到的脚本到提供24×7小时不间断服务的大型服务器的各个领域中。它被用于GUI和数据库编程、客户端和服务器端的网络编程，以及程序测试。它既被科学家用来给世界上最快的超级电脑写程序，也被儿童用来学习编程。

从LinuxToy上看到了Python的作者开blog写史的消息，马上进去看看，发现现在一共有两篇文章。因此想到现在做一个粗略的翻译可能会对中文读者有帮助，就抽了点时间翻译了其中的第二篇文章。我翻译的很不正规、也很不严谨。但对于不想做Python历史学家的普通读者应该能看通大略意思。

This post is for translating an article named “Python’s Design Philosophy” by Guido van Rossum.

原文地址：http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/01/pythons-design-philosophy.html

后面的blog文章会讨论Python历史的（血淋淋的）细节。然而在那之前，我想详细的说一下在我设计和实现Python时帮助我做出决定的哲学上的指导方针。

Today, on course COMP 3620, *Professional Practices in Computer

Science* (actually, or to be more precisely, the course name

should be Computer Ethics), we continue talking about the

concepts about ethics vs morals but much deeper.

To tell you the truth, I still can’t figure out how helpful of

this course to your ability of computer science. Just think about

our course topic today. It’s hard to believe that knowing the

I have a course this term named *Professional Practice in Computer

Science*. It talks about the ethic issues in computer science area.

During the course, our professor read some paragraph from a book named

[Computer

Ethics](http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Ethics-3rd-Deborah-Johnson/dp/0130836990),

written by Deborah Johnson. In the Preface, Johnson mentioned that the

first edition of the book was released when she gave birth to her

daughter about 25 years ago. And now (about 2001), her daughter had