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Death of a Hard Drive

On Saturday, one of the hard drives in my near ancient Linux server failed. Even though I had back-ups of some of my data, I was lax and hadn’t backed up some of the information for a few of the web sites that reside there.
So, until I can rebuild …

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Sending HTML Email From Python

I forget where exactly I found this, but the other day I needed a quick Python method to send an HTML email — in my case, it was in response to a Web CGI request, but this example below is usable anywhere.  The bits that need to be changed for …

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Python Round Up

I really haven’t spent much time looking around at Python blogs/pages/etc lately.  But, since I’m procrastinating from the whole NaNoWriMo thing, I spent time today doing that.
Easy Python decorators –some examples of creating Python function decorators using the decorator module.
Python 3 Patterns and Idioms –early development of an open source …

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My new pet project … er, website.

I’ve seen a lot of these “viral networking” websites that are designed to get traffic to your web site.  I’ve also seen a bunch of websites that help (or at the very least, provide tools) to build your referrals in places like traffic exchanges and other online tools.
Since I’ve run …

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Social Bookmarking (Web 2.0) using old Web technology

I have an old Linux server that sits, sad and muted, unused in a corner. I decided to blow the dust off of it, and see what I can wrangle out of it.
For the morbidly curious: it’s a Fedora Core 1 install, running on a Dell Poweredge server. …

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