I recently bought a rocbox (http://www.roc-digital.com/main.html) for a good price, thinking I would be able to use it as a portable drive as well as an mp3 player. (I got it for about half the price of a 20 gig ipod), so I won't complain …

Two nights ago I was able to attend a talked titled "Python: Building an Open Source Project and Community" given by the creator of Python himself at Xerox Parc.

Guido is a funny man (the name Python is from the comedy troupe "Monte Python" — not the animal Python) and shared …