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Python Memory Management (via) It’s not quite as straight forward as you might have thought.

# 8th November 2004, 12:43 pm / python

Working with Spotlight. Geek-friendly overview of Apple’s new search technology.

# 8th November 2004, 12:22 pm

English “Squatters”. Jack T. Chick’s finest piece of creative insanity yet.

# 6th November 2004, 12:41 am

Your Vote Counts: Voting Equipment Information for Franklin County. Comical video, considering the news about the voting machines.

# 5th November 2004, 10:40 pm

Wikipedia Firefox extension (via) Adds Wiki-markup shortcuts to the context menu.

# 4th November 2004, 1:50 pm / firefox, wikipedia

Woke up this mornin’, got the election blues. How George Bush’s victory catapaulted liberal Britain into collective depression

# 4th November 2004, 1:03 pm

Cache decorator in Python 2.4 (via) Nothing like a good example to understand why decorators are a cool language feature.

# 1st November 2004, 1:15 pm / python

Access Denied (via) They’ve blocked access to the site for IPs outside the US. Similarities to their whole foreign policy?

# 28th October 2004, 12:08 pm

BBC News Online Wikiproxy (via) Automatically adding Wikipedia links to capitalised words is a brilliant, brilliant idea.

# 6th October 2004, 7:27 am / wikipedia

TiddlyWiki (via) Client-side Wiki in JavaScript. In page editing is The Next Big Thing.

# 24th September 2004, 3:43 am

Sam Ruby: Copy and Paste. This character encoding glitch has bitten me more times than I care to say.

# 23rd September 2004, 10:22 pm / sam-ruby

kansascity.craigslist.org job: Monitor / Linguist. Evesdrop on phone calls for the DHS, for $45 an hour!

# 22nd September 2004, 11:41 pm

After Abu Ghraib. If even one tenth of this is true, it should be an international scandal.

# 22nd September 2004, 5:26 pm

XMLHttpRequest is coming to Opera! (via) It’s already in IE, Mozilla and Safari—Opera completes the set.

# 22nd September 2004, 10:20 am

Compiling PNG utilities on Mac OS X. Likely to be useful at some point.

# 22nd September 2004, 6:28 am

NetNewsWire 2.0b3 and MarsEdit public betas. Plenty of new features, free upgrades for registered users.

# 22nd September 2004, 4:13 am / netnewswire

The Joel Test for Web Development. How much can web developers learn from software developers? A heck of a lot.

# 21st September 2004, 11:17 pm

Boris Johnson—Conservative MP (via) The first Tory MP blog. Unfortunately most of the entries at the moment are by his press secretary.

# 21st September 2004, 10:30 pm

Guardian Unlimited | Newsblog. The Guardian’s new blog. Interesting for the comments above anything else.

# 21st September 2004, 10:24 pm

Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby: Chapter 5. Them What Make the Rules and Them What Live the Dream

# 21st September 2004, 8:44 pm

HOW-TO: Take digital photos from a kite. With detailed instructions on modding the camera to take a shot every second until the card fills up.

# 21st September 2004, 8:27 pm

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