Python module of the week

Someone has been doing a tutorial of a python module per week for quite some time

Good list of vim tips

On any good list of vim tips, there's always a lot of stuff that I don't know.

Blogging Ottinger: Use vim like a pro

Google talk by the vim guy

Find non-ascii chars in mysql

How can you tell whether a non-ascii character is sneaking into a field that should not contain any such characters?

Cast the field to ascii and see if it's any different:

select item_id, uri from items where convert(uri using ascii) <> uri;

Of course, you can/should preclude such a possibility by changing the character set of the field to ascii.