From the Orient

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Another Bartez blunder. Shame
Go Senegal.

Check out Peerkat an RSS aggregator written in Python. Don’t think I’ll use it, but I plan to examine the code, at least.

Joe Useless Writes A Program

I was with him as far as Step 6, which is a very alien concept to me.

Roy Keane sent home from the World Cup. On the one hand he was right to complain about training facilities etc on behalf of the other players. On the other, you don’t say those sort of things to your manager and get away with it. I wonder if he’d even think of doing it to Ferguson.

Jukka Korpela writes about using CSS to customize browsing. [via MCU]

“A common Web browser such as Internet Explorer can easily be turned into a customized “content extractor” that displays just selected parts of documents.”

On the one hand, gaah, that was my idea. On the other, cool, it shows that it wasn’t quite the half baked idea I thought it might have been.

(Aside, you know those pesky “difficult to change” background-images? I’ve written a Python script to produce a random background image. A bit of tidying up and I’ll stick it on Vent)

John Giles makes the case for the defence of Roy Keane after his retirement from International Football was announced. He clearly just hates Mick McCarthy.