posts brought to you by the category “anal
retentiveness”
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.
Mike Heins : Snapback2
Snapback2 does backup of systems via ssh and rsync. It
creates rolling "snapshots" based on hourly, daily,
weekly, and monthly rotations.
...
You might think this would take up lots of space.
However, snapback2 hard-links the files to create the
images. If the file doesn't change, only a link is
necessary, taking very little space. It is possible to
create a complete yearly backup in just over 2x the
actual storage space consumed by the image.
Occasionally someone will ask me if I've considered
opening a restaurant.
devshed : Date Arithmetic With MySQL
Accessing Web Services In Mozilla [1.4] Using WSDL
Proxying
Using the WSDL file, Gecko can offer developers a way
to "script" web services as if it were a native object,
hiding the SOAP and XML aspect.
Baby squirrels!
Me : add-css-links.xsl 1.0
Me : ASCOPE::Term.pm 0.04
The Sync4j Project
Ed Hawco : Montréal has a few mythical bus
lines
erhaps someone should write an essay about the 29 as a
failed bridge of the two solitudes, going back and forth,
empty and ghost-like, between The Main ... and
Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
It's my birthday!
"It's like having a conversation speaking in nothing
but airport codes."
ATSA : Les Murs du Feu
developerWorks : Use recursion effectively in XSL
Net::Google::Cook.pm, anyone?
Randal L. Schwartz : Processing Footnotes
"The idea is that I insert a footnote
into the main flow using a made-up tag of foot, and then this
processor pass takes those out, replacing them with an anchor
link and a unique number. Then, at the end of the file, all
the footnotes are dumped out. For an example, look at the end
of the program. And, I couldn't stop there, so I decided to
allow nested footnotes (like those frequently found on the
alt.sysadmin.recovery newsgroup). About half my coding time
was spent getting those to work right. Someday, I must learn
priorities."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
rubicund
Rubicund \Ru"bi*cund\, a. [L. rubicundus, fr.
rubere to be red, akin to ruber red. See {Red}.] Inclining
to redness; ruddy; red. ``His rubicund face.''
--Longfellow.
web1913
rubicund adj : inclined to a healthy reddish
color often associated with outdoor life; "a ruddy
complexion"; "Santa's rubicund cheeks"; "a fresh and
sanguine complexion" [syn: {ruddy}, {sanguine}]
wn
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
ennui
Ennui \En`nui"\, n. [F., fr. L. in odio in
hatred. See {Annoy}.] A feeling of weariness and disgust;
dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or
want of interest; tedium. --T. Gray.
web1913
ennui n : the feeling of being bored by
something tedious [syn: {boredom}, {tedium}]
wn
Michel Bergeron : "Rien ne va battre la rivalité entre
le Canadien et les Nordiques.
Ça allait au delŕ des équipes.
C'était deux villes, deux brasseries et des journalistes des
deux côtés. Et chaque équipe comptait 12 ou 13 Québécois dans
son alignement. Moi, je ne vois pas de grosse rivalité
aujourd'hui. Le jeu est robuste, mais nous sommes en séries
éliminatoires."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
abjure
Abjure \Ab*jure"\, v. i. To renounce on oath.
--Bp. Burnet.
web1913
abjure v : reject; "He retracted his earlier
statements about his beliefs" [syn: {recant}, {forswear},
{retract}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
genericise
To write or design something in a way that is
generic or to change something to become
generic--especially software.
ex. We should try to genericise this bit of
the software.
Tyler Brule launches lifestyle*porn airlines.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
messagement
The art and practice of communicating,
particularly with email messages..
ex. Messagement in the heat of the moment is
usually regretted.
Petr Cimprich : "I'm playing with an idea of a
streaming transformation language.
I don't mean things like forward-only
streamable subsets of XSLT or building subtrees on request
only, but an alternative language designed for streaming
transformations. From a bit different point of view, it would
be a language to define SAX filters."
Web Application Standard API (for) Bi-directional
Information Interchange
"(wasabii) is an attempt to create a
flexible, yet simple, API, running via XML-RPC, for various
web applications running on heterogeneous platforms to
communicate and interact. this effort is meant to replace the
bloggerAPI by providing a non application-specific set of
methods and arguements. in other words, wasabii is not
specifically geared for "weblogs," though it may fit that
model well. ideally, the API will be flexible enough to
support other types of web applications and content
managements systems. realistically, it will not be as simple
as the bloggerAPI, but it will provide broader
functionality."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
puerile
Puerile \Pu"er*ile\, a. [L. puerilis, fr. puer
a child, a boy: cf. F. pu['e]ril.] Boyish; childish;
trifling; silly. The French have been notorious through
generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms,
models, and historic precedents. --De Quincey. Syn:
Youthful; boyish; juvenile; childish; trifling; weak. See
{Youthful}.
web1913
puerile adj 1: of or characteristic of a child;
"puerile breathing" 2: displaying or suggesting a lack of
maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our
problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"
[syn: {adolescent}, {jejune}, {juvenile}]
wn
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
rodomontade
| source : web1913 | Rodomontade
\Rod`o*mon*tade"\, n. [F., fr. It. rodomontana. See
{Rodomont}, n.] Vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting;
rant. I could show that the rodomontades of Almanzor are
neither so irrational nor impossible. --Dryden. | source :
web1913 | Rodomontade \Rod`o*mon*tade"\, v. i. To boast; to
brag; to bluster; to rant. | source : wn | rodomontade n :
vain and empty boasting [syn: {braggadocio}, {bluster}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
empyrean
| source : web1913 | Empyrean
\Em`py*re"an\ (?; 277), n. [See {Empyreal}.] The highest
heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the
ancients to subsist. The empyrean rung With hallelujahs.
--Milton. | source : web1913 | Empyrean \Em`py*re"an\, a.
Empyreal. --Akenside. | source : wn | empyrean adj 1: of or
relating to the sky or heavens; "the empyrean sphere" [syn:
{empyreal}] 2: inspiring awe; "well-meaning ineptitude that
rises to empyreal absurdity"- M.S.Dworkin; "empyrean aplomb"-
Hamilton Basso; "the sublime beauty of the night" [syn:
{empyreal}, {sublime}] n : the apparent surface of the
imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be
projected [syn: {celestial sphere}, {sphere}, {firmament},
{heavens}, {vault of heaven}, {welkin}]
Simon Kittle : Text::Outline 0.8
"And (that's right, there's even more
:) another method - asXBEL - has been added. This is a simple
method which just outputs the outline as an XBEL file. The
obvious thing to add is the functionality to read in XBEL
files so you can convert them to an OPML file, edit them, and
save the out again. That will come, in good time."
Matt Sergeant : Just for Damians
Sean M. Burke : perlpodspec, draft 1
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is
genuflect
| source : web1913 | Genuflect
\Gen`u*flect"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Genuflected}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Genuflecting}.] [See {Genuflection}.] To bend
the knee, as in worship. | source : wn | genuflect v 1: bow
in church or before a religious superior or image 2: bow in a
servile manner [syn: {scrape}, {kowtow}]
Sandra Tsing Loh talks to The Treatment
about "Us and Them". (real evil g2)
From the "Sharp as a Chocolate Chip Cookie" department
:
I have been forced into the
understanding that the only place work and rest meet is where
one stops and the other begins.
Paul Tchistopolskii : "Let's map the Windows 3.0
entities into Zope entities
and see what is missing. Perl CGIs
are like simple DOS apps, Apache mod_perl things are like
tricky DOS apps. Java apps are like Macintosh apps. Native
Zope Applications are of course Zope Products."
Andy Wardley : Apache::Template.pm
"provides a simple interface to the
Template Toolkit from Apache/mod_perl."
Beta Chapter : Programming Python 2.0
Oh fuck it.
I'm just going to break it and see
how long it takes to fix... I will put all the foofy dhtml
stuff and permanent links back when I finish tweaking the
backend templates. Obviously some re-thinking is in order. My
apologies if I've upset your surfing routine.
Breakage-reports
are appreciated.
Alec Hanley Bemis :
"Whenever I begin to get wrapped up
in records these days, however, I'm reminded that records are
just objects. My nostalgia for these commodities is awkward
and unwelcome in this, an era of frictionlessness,
weightlessness, wirelessness and Web technology, and of
frictionless, weightless talk about Web technology. Records
are merely an amalgam of printed paper and flat plastic:
garbage. They have become less real than digits floating
through the ether."
A.P. : AOL to offer free service to schools
I'm not sure that Steve Case could be
any more disingenuous when he says "We don't think of this as
a business opportunity." In exchange for free bandwidth, the
world's largest media company has been given license to
track, record and and analyze the surfing patterns of
students over a multi-year timespan. Oh yeah, students will
be "blocked" from offensive material, which presumably means
anyone not owned by AOL. It doesn't get any better than this
when it comes to data-mining and product development.
FileMaker XML Central
Better late than never, I guess.
Ars Technica : How to update NT the wrong way
or How to prepare thyself for attacks
of Murphy
w3history.org
Ralph Steadman : Collected Gardening Hints
Found while looking for (seemingly
non-existent) websites with images from [
his
] book "I Leonardo".
Garry Trudeau
"While the public at large regards
'Peanuts' as a cherished part of our shared popular culture,
cartoonists also see it as an irreplaceable source of purpose
and pride, our gold standard for work that is both
illuminating and aesthetically sublime. We can hardly imagine
its absence." via
robot
wisdom
O'Reilly Sample Chapter
<a href =
"http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jscook/chapter/ch01.html">JavaScript
Application Cookbook : The Client-Side Search
Engine</a>
Jean Paré
"Words are powerful. They are the DNA
of thought. Philosophers have taught us that he who names
things takes possession of them. New realities are like
islands or continents. And words and names are not neutral.
When we adopt the language or the lexicon of somebody, we
become that somebody. When we accept the vocabulary of
somebody with a message, we echo his message. And, of course,
most of the time the media interview, report and even
criticize with the very words that have been created by the
people they report on or criticize. And we don't see the
mountain because we walk on it."
Dale Chihuly went to Jerusalem
Sam Henderson
thinks you should
avoid the School for Visual Arts
if you want to be a cartoonist. I recommend reading Dave
Sim's
How to become a cartooning self-publisher
. A series of twenty essays originally published in his Notes
from the President column, they cover most of the bases
including 'How to find a printer', 'Copyright, trademarks and
taxes' and 'How not to waste time and just produce comics'.
I guess if you're too poor
Bunnies!
Now I know what to answer if anyone
from O'Reilly ever asks which animal I'd like to be. Speaking
of which, here's
a
still
from a project that never really got off the ground. via
braindump
.
Takashi Murakami
""We have our traditional arts, whose
rules are strict, but in a contemporary context there is no
fine art anymore. Pop-culture imagery has become the dominant
language, so through it I try to create a fine art for our
times."
Jorn Barger : The First-Cut Manifesto
"The goal is to make at least one
full pass over a document, and classify every character into
some meaningful category, with a high level of robustness
when faced with bad human editing." Interesting, but the "It"
that does all this work sounds more like a human than a
computer. If someone had figured out how to make computers be
"very flexible at reading dates in human formats", we
wouldn't have thousands of programmers sifting through lines
of legacy code looking for the year 1900/2000. via
kottke.org
.
Does God Belong In the Constitution?
Real Audio - live (check for local
Canadian feed closest to you) & archived.
The answer is always and emphatically no, for a variety of reasons including lack of confidence (I prefer to call it ) and no real understanding about how to stage an efficient kitchen. If you all want to come over and eat the same thing sometime between eight-thirty and ten o'clock at night, well, then we're in business.
And while it is a pleasure to cook for friends and family, one of the biggest reasons for not making a professional endeavour of it is that : strangers + food = a bunch of psychopaths, worry-warts and complete nut-bags.
I learned this very quickly during the few brief moments I worked in the industry and I don't, honestly, think there are any exceptions. I also learned that I have no sympathy for the kind of anxieties and peculiarities you're asked to suffer when you serve people a meal.
Take the poor wanker at the bakery, yesterday, lugging loaves of bread from the cooling trays to the front of the store and forced to wear a hairnet on his beard. His beard!
I know this may come as a shocker to some but if there were really a serious health and safety issue involving facial hair and food we'd have found out about it long before we invented the hairnet!
I don't like hairy food any more than the next person but, seriously, stop the madness.