...right around the corner from the place where I'm staying now.

And as proper Japanese culture fan-boy I could not resist the temptation of buying a new kimono. Boy, does this bring back memories from when I practiced Karate and Tai Chi :D

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If, like me, you have this annoying problem where iTunes insists on launching every time you press a multimedia key on your keyboard (for instance play/pause/next/previous song) the fastest and most effective way to work around it is to get rid of...

Straight from the PythonInfo Wiki:

>>> import operator >>> L = [('c', 2), ('d', 1), ('a', 4), ('b', 3)] >>> map(operator.itemgetter(0), L) ['c', 'd', 'a', 'b'] >>> map(operator.itemgetter(1), L) [2, 1, 4, 3]...

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