Paul Carr, Can't spot a spoof? Meet Google...

It seems that Private Eye, amongst others, has been taken in more than once by online spoofs, such as Tom Watson's Teens!, or the excellent Thinkofthechildren.co.uk.

Via Tom Watson.

Using RSS in JSP pages offers a nice overview of RSS processing in Java.

Now I just have to think of a use for it. ;-)

For RSS processing with Python, see RSS for Python.

This is seriously sick. Sex symbol aged eight.

I'm lost for words, really. This kind of person doesn't need egging on.

Via Rececca Blood.

The effbot is posting a series of updates to his superb The Standard Python Library, covering modules added to the Python Standard Library since version 2.1.

Of particular interest (to me, at least): datetime and csv. I'm looking forward to his coverage of logging, sets, and especially itertools.

Microsoft are getting a lot of coverage at the BBC today - Worm blasts across the web and Microsoft fined $520m in patent case.

I can't pretend that the 2nd of these didn't make me smile.

IBM Announces New Release of WDSc, New Software Ships in September.

The new WDSc is based on Eclipse 2.1, which rocks. It's nice to see that IBM are keeping up to date.

The next time I have any iSeries work to do, I'll upgrade.