Springer is taking over ProSiebenSat.1 - and will likely soon launch their neoliberal opinion campaign multimedially and then send their trash on all channels. A democracy needs an independent, strong press - but one that does not pursue its own political agenda. Therefore, we can probably say goodnight to another piece of democracy when a corporation like Springer will soon bridge the media gap.
Connecting databases to Python with SQLObject is a quite nice introduction to SQLObject - one of the nicer Object-Relation-Mappers for Python.
It was to be expected, the state government presents environmental policy goals - and what does that bring:
Environmental protection will also have "high priority" in the new NRW state government - promises Environment Minister Eckhard Uhlenberg. But he wants to reduce the influence of nature conservation associations.
And then there are various other niceties, in principle a dismantling of what has always distinguished NRW's environmental policy from the rather weak stance of the federal government (and probably a merit of Mrs. Höhn - not that anyone believes the SPD in NRW has been particularly environmentally conscious).
Unicode HOWTO for Python. Python programmers should read.