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Given that the posting has risen quite high on the front page, can the link be changed to the URL of the original?

Not that there was much meat in the article, anyway, but at least the following is mildly insightful:

I prefer Python to R for mathematical computing because mathematical computing doesn’t exist in a vacuum; there’s always other stuff to do. I find doing mathematical programming in a general-purpose language is easier than doing general-purpose programming in a mathematical language.

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2012/10/22/fixing-computers/

Yes, some interesting stuff.

ipython notebook looks nice. Two month wait for paper version in the UK so I'll set the environment up first.

Spamming not intended. And yep, John Cook's blog is fantastic. Concise but powerful ideas like the one quoted below.