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Entries for Tuesday, July 18, 2006
➠ July 18, 2006
AOL Retention Manual Revealed - Consumerist
Consumerist get their paws on the scripts & tools used by AOL to try to keep their users from cancelling. “If you stop and think about it, every Member that calls in to cancel their account is a hot lead. Most other sales jobs require you to create your own leads, but in the Retention Queue the leads come to you!” Wankers.
Belle & Sebastian Charity Album Details
Splendid indie line-up for an album benefiting Save The Children.
Sysinternals: Acquisition FAQ
Sysinternals (makers of frankly necessary tools that should have been included in Windows) has been purchased by MS. Unlike every other “purchased by MS” story, this one isn’t on April 1st. ‘wget —mirror’ is your friend.
IPython - An enhanced Interactive Python
Improved console for Python. Includes, be still my beating heart, tab-completion for Python commands.
Matplotlib / pylab - matlab style python plotting
About to do a bunch of graphical data analysis. This seems to be the best graphic package for Python.
Popjustice £20 Music Prize: the 2006 shortlist...
Who gives a toss about yer Mercury arty wankfest? *This* is the music prize that matters. Some great choons in here.
About This Site
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.