Life:
Meant to get an early night last night (ie
asleep before 1am), but instead read a book (Polar City
Blues), and didn't finish it until 5:30am. As a result,
I didn't get into UCC for the 10am cleanup being held by SOC
(the
guild clubs governing body), but there were almost certainly
other committee members there. Even so, I feel rather guilty
for not going, despite the amount of work I've put into UCC
this year. Oh well.
Playing much too much Freecell (the GNOME sort) - up to 54 wins in a row, 102/110 overall. The unlimited undo is the best feature, makes it far better than the Mickeysoft version.
Code:
Played a little with Python's htmllib and
sgmllib - they were quite easy to get the hang of (like most
of the Python libs), but not really suited for what I wanted
to do. Unsurprising, since that what I discovered when I
tried to do the same thing in Perl (with
HTML::TokeParser).
<advocacy type="language">
IMHO, Python has
better docs, is more integrated, has better OO etc. than
Perl. I think this is a result of Perl's heritage as an
overgrown awk/shell (which has made it too much like line
noise for me). Anyway, Perl vs. Python has been done to
death, I'd just like to stake my position on the Python side
(not that Perl doesn't have its uses).</advocacy>