A Joke, or an Accident?

I can't decide whether Greg Wilson posted this as a joke. In case he didn't, and whatever error induced this behavior is fixed by the time you click on the link, I attach a current screenshot. Click on the image to look at the title and see what amused me.

Either way I think it's funny. No, it doesn't take a lot to amuse me. I guess I'm just a geek at heart.

ReStructured Text to Anything

I stopped using the "How'd I Get Here" Firefox add-on when I had to reload Windows last time, so I don't remember where I saw this, but there's an interesting new service that lets you convert your ReST documents to HTML or PDF with a choice of styles. Worth a look.

The authors give credit to many open source products including Docutils, Python, Django, MochiKit, LaTeX, ImageMagick, MySQL and Ubuntu.

It's good to see great services coming out of the Python community, and this is a nicely put together example of what you can do with open source.

Debian -- python-samba

I wonder what's happening with python-samba. I came across the Debian package while looking at a Samba bug notice, but so far I haven't heard about usage. The package description does say

At the moment their status is "experimental" but they have been reported to work well.