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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: scripts</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/scripts.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2010-01-01T16:24:30+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>countdown_to_newyear.py</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2010/Jan/1/countdown/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2010-01-01T16:24:30+00:00</published><updated>2010-01-01T16:24:30+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2010/Jan/1/countdown/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://gist.github.com/267147"&gt;countdown_to_newyear.py&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
A quick Python / OS X script I knocked up last night to count in the new year (using the OS X “say” command).


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