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Do We Have To Endure The Stress And Aching Feet To Find The Perfect Christmas Gift For Our Loved One
Christmas is now close enough for us all to be considering our plans and gift lists, as well as how we are going to pay for it all. The lights will be twinkling soon and our minds beginning to churn over all the Christmas gift Ideas that we could get for our loved ones. Should we go for a unique Christmas gift, a personalised gift, or something a little more unusual? Aren't we all searching for that seemingly elusive unusual Christmas gift, something that is a little more original than a pair of socks or tie?
A Christmas Shoppers aim is to find the right gift instead of something that 'will do' We all want our gift to be the one that people 'ooh' and 'aah' over, the one that causes the receiver to tell us how well we must know them, and how thoughtful we've been. We all want to find the ideal Christmas gift idea for someone. A gift they will love and appreciate. I feel the important thing to remember is to be creative. When you're shopping remember the person you are buying for, as sometimes the temptation to buy things that appeal to us most, rather than the person we're buying for can be overwhelming. One of the big favourites this year is a personalised Christmas gift, and I think a personalised gift is an ideal way to get around the 'it's special to you' issue as it makes it individual to the person you are giving to. In that respect, I don't think you can go wrong with something that is personalised. And what makes a personalised gift even more fantastic is that the person you give it to is reminded of you, and your love for them, every time they use it. They will treasure it more, and your loving thoughts for them will continue to be felt long after the tree, paper and boxes disappear. Now, if you can find a personalised gift that is also practical and useful to the receiver then you will surely have hit upon the best gift ever!
Cookies with httplib
<p>I needed to do a simple http get in the other day, the only catch was that I had to send a cookie. My first thoughts were that this might be tricky, but in practise it's a doddle. Below is a simplistic example passing a cookie (called "Fish", with a value of "Cod") using Python's <a href="http://docs.python.org/lib/module-httplib.html">httplib</a>.</p>
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import httplib
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection( "www.example.com" )
Headers = {"Cookie" : "Fish=Cod"}
conn.request("GET", "/fishfinder.html", None, Headers )
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
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<p>How hard can it be?</p>
Easy security blanket
<p>Back in May del.icio.us announced some changes to their api, in a post curiously titled <a href="http://blog.del.icio.us/blog/2006/05/feel_secure.html">Security blanket</a>.</p>
<p>It took all of two minutes to update my <a href="http://feetup.org/blog/dev/projects.html">linkblogging script</a> (a different url, and https rather than http), source code for which can be found in the usual location: <a href="http://feetup.org/code/py/pydelicious.py.txt">pydelicious.py</a></p>
<p>One gotcha for Pythonistas is that the default win32 build of older versions of Python doesn’t have any ssl support, I’ve tried <a href="http://alldunn.com/python/">Robin Dunn’s drop-in replacement for _socket.pyd</a> and it seems to work fine.</p>
Personalised gifts are by their very nature, a unique Christmas gift idea, and if you take a look around on the internet for half an hour or so you will find that they also tend to be an unusual Christmas gift too. Let's face it, having our Christmas gift, returned on boxing day is about the biggest kick in the teeth we could get. Shopping on-line for a personalised Christmas gift eliminates that risk, and as they are all the rage right now, wouldn't it make life a lot easier and rewarding for you to take this option? With internet shopping there are no heavy bags to lift, no traffic jams to negotiate on the way home and definitely no aching feet! It is all delivered to you with full satisfaction guaranteed, and you can sift through a much greater choice of unique Christmas gifts on-line, than you will ever be able to do walking from shop to shop in the cold. Just try it for an hour or so. If you don't find at least five unusual Christmas gift Ideas I'll be astounded. I'd even bet my Christmas tree on it! Who knows, you may even hit the perfect personalised and useful gift that we all aspire to find.
The only drawback that I can see with on-line shopping is that you have to be a little more organised and prepare in advance. A last minute mad dash on 24th December will just not produce results with on-line shopping, and those special unique Christmas gift ideas and personalised gifts will all be long gone. Preparation is the key here, but just think of the rewards you'll reap...
Imagine yourself sitting on Christmas Eve curled up warm, peaceful and satisfied, enjoying a relaxing start to the Christmas festivities and knowing that the all the Christmas gifts under the tree have been hand picked by you with no stress or sore involved. The gift for your nearest and dearest is a personalised Christmas gift, full of thought and love. Aunty Betty has a unique Christmas gift that will have her chuckling away all day, and cooing about how much you must think about her, and your notoriously hard to buy for, teenage niece has even been catered for with the kind of unusual Christmas gift that you just know she'll adore. Now, how smug is that smile on your face? Happy Christmas!
About the Author:Sara McCann is the owner and creator of http://www.FunkyWellyBoots.com To get your hands on the most unique and personalised gift for your loved ones this season then visit: http://www.FunkyWellyBoots.com to brighten your winter!
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