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I recently started looking at digg for interesting news and links. It has a very cool feature: you store the details of your blog, and then you can post articles from digg with a single click. So I created a low-privilege account here, entered that account info on digg, set the default category to “Linky” [...]

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XML processing in Python is somewhat confusing, mostly because, as in most other languages, it’s still very much in a state of flux. The PyXML library is now part of the standard Python distribution, but it seems to include components from different sources. Another library, 4suite, seems to improve on some aspects, particularly in XPath [...]

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I’ve been meaning to learn Python for a while, so I’m forcing myself to code one of my current projects at work in this language. I like it so far. Being used to Perl, I found the syntax a bit constricting at first, but I’m getting used to it. I like that the standard library [...]

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One of the things that drive me mad lately is the generalized misuse of powerpoint slides that double as documents. It works like this: someone puts together a set of slides presenting a topic, but because the slides will often be forwarded around far beyond the first time they are presented, they have to be [...]

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