I whip up a lot of random programs as utilities. I'll put up ones here that could be useful.
This is one of the most useful programs I've written; this python script runs a command and emails you the result.
mailer.py is a simple example of how to use python's mail library to email a string given in the arguments
runutil.py is the actual script that's significantly more complicated than above. Read the comments to see how to use it.