Dave Beckett - Journalblog
RDF and free software hacking

What’s New in Python 2.2: PEP 234: Iterators must add these new magic methods to the Redland Python class Interator.

Python Reference Manual: 4.1 Code blocks, execution frames, and namespaces which is rather a mess in discussing what global actually does in terms of scope, code blocks and modules(=files)

Fighting Font Frustration includes steps to improve web browsing by using better fonts (might be a little out of date)

wvWare, library for converting Word documents dragged out of old bookmarks. Other related sites I had were all 404.

Apache Portable Runtime a C utility library that I might be able to use of in Redland.

ScanDoc another C/C++ docu-comment scanner that generates a nice javadoc style output.

Closed SourceForge: A message from VA Software Corporation CEO Larry Augustin

2.5.7 pre-UDMA PIIX bug thread on Linux-Kernel which I suspect is the bug causing the divide-by-zero on boot for my 2.5.x test box. Update: it was.

First pictures from new European environment satellite Envisat:

Blooming Phytoplankton in the Upwelling Zone off West Africa

Eric Raymond: Why open source will rule in ZDNet UK, part 1 and part 2