We started using Gitorious at work for our git repositories. Since I couldn't find a way to create projects and repositories on the command line, I decided to write one using mechanize. The script allows for project creation and deletion as well as repository creation and deletion. I may add more fe...

The company I work for uses Paychex to handle payroll. Paychex provides a website where, among other things, you can download your paystubs. Rather than manually logging in and downloading my current paystub every paycheck, I wrote a script that does it for me: paychex_paystubs.py Just pass the scri...

Yesterday I wrote a little python script that grabs your current Comcast internet usage and prints it to stdout. It depends on the excellent mechanize module so if you don't have it, install it with easy_install.py mechanize. To run the script, simply execute comcap.py. You will be prompted for your...

The Boxee Box is a great piece of hardware. The main thing I use it for is streaming local content from my network. For most of the movies and TV shows, Boxee does a great job of figuring out what it is and downloading information and thumbnails. Occasionally it doesn't work even though the movie/TV...