Thanks to James Off for this handy service monitor based o Python. (can anyone guess what Ive been doing while Ive not been posting) anyway here it is http://jamesoff.net/site/code/simplemonitor/ great for keeping an eye on whether your website is still alive

One of those days two useful bits of code… this was one of them http://kutuma.blogspot.com/2007/08/sending-emails-via-gmail-with-python.html