June 07, 2002
New release of win32all

Mark Hammond has released a new version of win32all.

Downloads available for Python versions 2.1 and 2.2.

I have installed it and tried it. (Some pretty simple COM-driving-Excel stuff.) It seems to work.

Posted by Simon Brunning at 03:52 PM
Zope News

Zope News is very irregular, but the June edition is out.

Zope is pretty cool, but also pretty daunting. I have used a couple of pre-built products (ZWiki and Squishdot) with great success, but I've not tried building anything of my own.

I like the Steve Alexander haiku:

Guido's good ideas
Like new buds in the Spring
cause Jim to refactor

A proper haiku, with a seasonal reference and everything.

Posted by Simon Brunning at 02:28 PM
Eclipse community projects and plugins

There is a new community projects and plugins page on the Eclipse site.

Jalopy and CheckStyle look interesting on the Java side. Still nothing Python related though. :-(

Posted by Simon Brunning at 01:17 PM
Pre-human civilization?

K5 has an interesting story about the discovery of what might be 120 million year old stone maps, with links.

Fascinating stuff, but I'm not even going to begin to believe it until I hear about it from some more reliable sources. Anywhere but the Internet, for a start!

Posted by Simon Brunning at 01:04 PM
Homer

The Homer Simpson Soundboard.

Mmm... beer.

Update 11th June: Another one.

Posted by Simon Brunning at 12:54 PM
Are your beliefs self consistent?

Try Battlefield God and find out.

I took two hits, and bit no bullets.

There are some other philosophical games here too.

Posted by Simon Brunning at 12:48 PM
Monopoly playing pieces

The Straight Dope has, uh, the straight dope on the significance of the Monopoly playing pieces.

I usually play the battleship.

Posted by Simon Brunning at 12:12 PM