posts brought to you by the category “ad-jacking”
Das eez kaput! Sometime around 2002 I spaced the entire database
table that mapped individual entries to categories. Such is life.
What follows is a random sampling of entries that were associated
with the category. Over time, the entries will be updated and then it
will be even more confusing. Wander around, though, it's still a fun
way to find stuff.
C'est le sport municipal!
Me : Net::Blogger.pm 0.85
My sense is that this is sort of where the OSAF is going with
Chandler
Martine Pagé : Je t'aime, me neither
Some clever egg thought to stitch together the stills from the
webcam on the corner of Ste. Catherine and Peel
Kate L. Pugh : Find::File::Rule::MP3Info.pm
What he said.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
procrastination
Procrastination \Pro*cras`ti*na"tion\, n. [L.
procrastinatio: cf. F. procrastination.] The act or habit of
procrastinating, or putting off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness.
Procrastination is the thief of time. --Young.
web1913
procrastination n 1: the act of procrastinating [syn:
{cunctation}, {shillyshally}] 2: slowness as a consequence of not
getting around to it [syn: {dilatoriness}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : indignate
Similar to "indeed" but used in a posh accent. Pronounced
in-dig-narta.
ex. "Have you had enough caviar, Giles?" "Indignate, I
have, Samuel."
Me : XML::Filter::XML_Directory_Pruner.pm 1.1
Simon Cozens : Mail::Miner
"Suppose every mail you receive gets sent through
a little program before delivery. This little program does several
things. It strips off any attachments, and stores them in an SQL
database, adding a note to the end of the email pointing out the ID
number of the attachment in the database. It also stores information
about who the mail was sent from, the subject line, the date, some
keywords as determined by Text::Keywords, and so on. The add-on
"recogniser" modules get hold of the email and try to pull out various
things - email addresses, patches, phone numbers, mailing addresses, and
so on."
Sightings : Scary Easter Monsters #3
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : dorkano
Female form of the word "dork." As in the possible
Spanish form. Dorkano for males. Used meaning stupid (in a funny way)
or just not thinking. This is not a mean term, but rather a term to
jokingly make fun of someone and bring attention to her action that
caused her to look so goofy.
ex. Sally couldn't believe what a dorkano her friend was
when he licked the ice cream store sign's large ice cream
cone.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
pronunciamento
Pronunciamento \Pro*nun`ci*a*men"to\, n. A proclamation or
manifesto; a formal announcement or declaration.
web1913
pronunciamento n : a public declaration of intentions (as
issued by a political party or government) [syn: {manifesto}]
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : maudlin
Maudlin \Maud"lin\, a. [From Maudlin, a contr. of Magdalen,
OE. Maudeleyne, who is drawn by painters with eyes swelled and red with
weeping.] 1. Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears;
excessively sentimental; weak and silly. ``Maudlin eyes.'' --Dryden.
``Maudlin eloquence.'' --Roscommon. ``A maudlin poetess.'' --Pope.
``Maudlin crowd.'' --Southey. 2. Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled;
given to drunkenness. Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. --Byron.
web1913
maudlin adj : effusively or insincerely emotional; "a
bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy
effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy
poetry" [syn: {bathetic}, {mawkish}, {mushy}, {schmaltzy}, {schmalzy},
{sentimental}, {slushy}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : flumpus
(n, v) An animal or person who sprawls all over while
looking squishy, cuddly, and cute. Plural: flumpi...or
flumpuses.
ex. My cat is the neighborhood flumpus. Look at her,
purring and flumpusing in the laundry basket. Squish!
Movable Thoughts #12
Gary Younge : "The relationship between these facts and last week's
atrocities is contextual, not causal.
Those who believe that America got what it
deserved as a payback for its former ills lack the very humanism which
they argue has been missing in America's foreign policy. But, similarly,
those eager to stifle any critical understanding as to why these attacks
happened lack the faculties to begin to imagine how to make the world a
safer place."
ActiveState : XSLT Cookbook
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is filial
| source : web1913 | Filial \Fil"ial\, a. [L.
filialis, fr. filius son, filia daughter; akin to e. female, feminine.
Cf. {Fitz}.] 1. Of or pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to a
child in relation to his parents; as, filial obedience. 2. Bearing the
relation of a child. And thus the filial Godhead answering spoke.
--Milton. | source : wn | filial adj 1: (genetics) designating the
generation or the sequence of generations following the parental
generation [ant: {parental}] 2: relating to or characteristic of or
befitting an offspring; "filial respect" [ant: {parental}]
"The CPAN is Perl's killer-app."
Dan O'Connor : The FreeBSD Cheat Sheets
"are notes that I have made to myself, so that I
could re-create what I have done in the event of a catastrophic failure
of either the hardware or me. I have made no attempt to explain the 'why'
behind the actions, or to take into account all the possible
configuration options, as there are other sources available which cover
such topics in-depth."
The dictionary.com "word of the day" dict-ified
Paul Hodges : Locally correcting to the secure port with
mod_perl
Tina Mion : Virtual Election
"Tina and her friends held elaborate ceremonies
every Sunday to select one card from the Presidential bridge deck. Mion
then created an original painting of the figure represented on the card,
maintaining the card's face value and suit. The paintings were created
using a wide variety of styles and mediums inspired by the personalities
and periods in which the figures lived." see also :
Morning
Edition on Mion's portraits of U.S. first ladies
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Weblogs, Theory and Practice
This is a very casual and unscientific project to
keep a record of the various writings on and about weblogs. Generally,
I've tried to exclude the semi-annual flamewars that break out
surrounding The One True Weblog.
Kip Hampton : Simple XML Validation with Perl
"Now what does Test.pm have to do with validating
an XML document? The answer lies in its combination with the XML::XPath
module. The XPath language provides a simple, powerful syntax for
navigating the logical structure of an XML document. XML::XPath allows us
to take advantage of that power from within Perl."
Bill Adler : "Disgusted as I am with two-party politics,
I thought it was crucially important to support
Nader, who has long been a hero of mine and who represents a
soul-stirring alternative to the big-money candidates. It was very
gratifying to reach out to some of my musician pals and discover that
they felt the same way. These recordings put some modern beats to the
best of Ralph in bite-sized pieces. I thought he could use the rhythm."
via
robot wisdom
Wolfgang Stobl : "Now that the beta version of the Zope Book is
out,
I've just created a fully indexed [Windows]
HTMLHelp version."
Gisle Aas : Data::DumpXML.pm
mmmm... arbitrary data structures.
Salon : Reading, writing and candy ads
"At Colorado Springs' Harrison High School,
students are largely unimpressed by the debate over their ZapMe computer
lab. 'Sure, the ads can be distracting,' says one 16-year-old junior,
adding that he doesn't see anything unusual about being pitched at in
school. After all, he says, 'we see ads everywhere we go. It just seems
natural.' And about the possibility that students' every mouse click
could be monitored from afar? 'Big deal,' replies another student. 'That
starts the day you get a Social Security number.' "
DIY law?
The road to Hell is paved with telephone companies
It's the dial-tone stupid. The modem I bought for
my Visor doesn't grok the Italian dial tone. I will rant at length about
the morons who run high tech companies when I get back. Until then I will
write for the web periodically; I didn't come to Italy to sit in front of
a web browser. The rest will have to wait. Sorry, I'm not very happy
about it either.
Jean-Louis Leroy : Tangram.pm
"is an object-relational mapper. It makes objects
persist in relational databases, and provides powerful facilities for
retrieving and filtering them. Tangram fully supports object-oriented
programming, including polymorphism, multiple inheritance and
collections. It does so in an orthogonal fashion, that is, it doesn't
require your classes to implement support functions nor inherit from a
utility class." Neat, but why is it called Tangram?
