To allow Django to send email using smptlib, use NetInfo Manager to create a new machine whose name corresponds to the output of hostname, so that socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()) returns something. (useful for laptops whose local DNS server may not know about their hostname).

I need to get this book for Luke…

It’s not news, but this particular bit is: Simon just released an add-on to Django to do OpenId consumer sign-on. It just works. I’m impressed.
See also this talk of his about OpenID.

Not that anyone cares. Don’t know what our calendar was thinking.