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Gmail Me
Thanks to the kindness of Liz Donovan, I’m now the proud owner of a Google Mail account. I’ll give this thing a spin in the next few days and report back on my impressions.
Grab HTML
John Gruber has an update of his Grab HTML script that uses curl to grab the source of a web page for editing in BBEdit. Nifty piece of work, and it’ll come in handy. I accomplished the same sort of task last week downloading and parsing lists of California lobbyists, but it took me three [...]
Python and Text
Rael Dornfest on David Mertz’s new book, Text Processing in Python: “I’m seeing ever more Python in the social software space.” Looks like another one for the Learn Python Project.
Python Under OS X
Here’s some encouragement for my summer to-do list: Chris Cummer wrote his first Python app (a text-only web browser) just 45 minutes after installing Python on his Mac.
Textile 2
Dean Allen and Brad Choate have released a new beta version of Textile, the “humane web text generator.” Among the new functions is the capability to create HTML tables without all the syntax junk. I use it for another project, and find it works very well.
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