And now for the first real bit of content, having nothing to do with the underlying mechanics of making the site work ...

This is a paper I wrote last year documenting the research I did to understand the ins and outs of how Python and Unicode interact. I include it here in case someone else has the same sort of questions I did, and also to bring it up to the top level of the site since there is (now) no direct link to it anywhere else.

Paper: All About Python and Unicode