Shell debugging.

Today in the comp.sys.mac.programmer.* newsgroups, Miro Jurisic mentioned something I wish I'd known a long time ago -- that the -x flag to sh puts the shell in a debugging mode in which it'll output every command it runs.

Hey, that's kinda cool. It even works in my favorite, the Korn Shell

Python's Package Metadata Repository. [Ned Batchelder]

Python is going to get an easy way to download modules.

Wonderful. Last week I had my first major experience with CPAN. It does make some stuff really easy... but it was also a little scary.

And now I'm updating Perl on a machine. Even scarier, actually. But maybe some day I'll have a bug-tracker...