posts brought to you by the category “cms”
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.
Ian Davis : RDF Template Language 1.0
RDFT has been designed to parallel XSLT where sensible and anyone
familiar with that language and with the principles of the RDF model
should find it very easy to learn. RDFT solves a key problem of
processing RDF with XSLT since it acts on the underlying graph and
therefore has no dependencies on the RDF serialisation syntax.
Karl commits the ultimate sacrilege
Heather Champ : I love Canada.
Tony Bowden : "Class::DBI prizes laziness and simplicity."
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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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."
Me : XML::Filter::XML_Directory_2::Base.pm 1.0
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : teotwawki
Absolute disaster--derived from "The End Of The World As
We Know It"
ex. Every election year, candidates warn of a teotwawki
if their opponents wins. As yet, though, the world goes
on.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : laid-out
To be completely physically out of commission either by
result of a flu-vaccination gone awry or an after school
beating.
submitted by christine
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : skankle
Any word that one writes in one's notes while falling
asleep during a lecture.
ex. Ooh, look. I came up with new skankle in government
today.
The use.perl journals get a SOAP interface
That used to be the Wendy's
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : cheerk
Highly dangerous cross-bred animal with the head of a
shark and the body of a cheetah. (Collective is
"couch.")
ex. Look out! There's a couch of cheerks coming this
way.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is predilection
| source : web1913 | Predilection
\Pre`di*lec"tion\, n. [Pref. pre- + L. dilectus, p. p. diligere to
prefer: cf. F. pr['e]dilection. See {Diligent}.] A previous liking; a
prepossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or
like; partiality. --Burke. | source : wn | predilection n 1: a
predisposition in favor of something [syn: {preference}] 2: a strong
liking; "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a
penchant for blarney"; "martinis are an acquired taste" [syn:
{preference}, {penchant}, {taste}] | source : devils | PREDILECTION, n.
The preparatory stage of disillusion.
Me : Apache::XBEL 1.2
Michael Kinsey : "Furthermore, under the theory of MAD, we leave
ourselves vulnerable in certain ways not because we have no
choice,
and not because we've agreed to do so, and not
because protecting ourselves might upset the Europeans, but because it is
in our own unilateral self-interest. Specifically, it is important to be
vulnerable to a "second strike"—that is, a retaliatory strike by an
arsenal crippled by your potential "first strike." Why? Because you don't
want anybody with nukes pointed at you to think they have to use 'em or
lose 'em. As long as they can rain cataclysmic damage on us by striking
second, they have no more incentive than we do to strike first."
I take it back. I'm really not sure why they let Dubya speak in
public, at all.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is coterminous
| source : web1913 | Coterminous \Co*ter"mi*nous\
(k?-t?r"m?-n?s), a. [Cf. {Conterminous}.] Bordering; conterminous; --
followed by with. | source : wn | coterminous adj : of equal extent or
duration [syn: {coextensive}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is corpulent
| source : web1913 | Corpulent \Cor"pu*lent\
(-p?-lent), a. [L. corpulentus, fr. corpus: cf. F. corpulent. See
{Corpse}.] 1. Very fat; obese. 2. Solid; gross; opaque. [Obs.] --Holland.
Syn: Stout; fleshy; bulky; obese. See {Stout}. | source : wn | corpulent
adj : excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: {obese}, {weighty},
{rotund}]
Sightings : stop, art
Bruce K. Alexander : The Roots of Addiction in Free Market
Society
"In order for "free markets" to be "free," the
exchange of labour, land, currency, and consumer goods must not be
encumbered by elements of psychosocial integration such as clan
loyalties, village responsibilities, guild or union rights, charity,
family obligations, social roles, or religious values. Cultural
traditions "distort" the free play of the laws of supply and demand, and
thus must be suppressed. In free market economies, for example, people
are expected to move to where jobs can be found, and to adjust their work
lives and cultural tastes to the demands of a global market. People who
cannot achieve psychosocial integration develop "substitute" lifestyles.
Substitute lifestyles entail excessive habits including-but not
restricted to-drug use, and social relationships that are not
sufficiently close, stable, or culturally acceptable to afford more than
minimal psychosocial integration. People who can find no better way of
achieving psychosocial integration cling to their substitute lifestyles
with a tenacity that is properly called addiction." see also :
The Big
Mac Index
Jonathon Eisenzopf : Weblog 2.0
"Other than departmentalizing the Weblog
functionality, the major addition is the integration and rewrite of Xhoo.
In short, this version of Weblog is a move towards a well-defined
environment for creating, editing, syndicating, and organizing channels.
... If you haven't heard of it before, Xhoo is a Web catalog that I
developed as an article a while back. You can still read about it off the
Mother of Perl home page. The difference now is that Xhoo itself is built
using RSS files, which allows you to leverage all of the same tools that
are now available for manipulating RSS. In the future, Xhoo will probably
support the RSS 1.0 threads module as soon as it matures a bit. Weblog
channels link to Xhoo categories through the taxonomy RSS 1.0 module."
Nathalie Petrowski : "Or toutes ces choses confondues et mises bout
à bout mènent directement à Montréal.
Pourquoi? Parce qu'un Canadien défroqué, gay et
modérément antiaméricain qui choisit de vivre à Londres et d'y éditer un
magazine raffiné, ne peut aimer qu'une ville au Canada et peut-être même
en Amérique du Nord."
How to take a perfectly good idea
This Hour Has 22 Minutes : "This is not only an exercise in
democracy,
this is an exercise in national unity." The CBC
is reporting that, as of this morning, the petition to change Stockwell
Day's name has 378, 877 signatures. (real evil video)
I am one with the basement.
Greetings from beautiful, sunny Black Dog Island.
More to come as I get settled...
Ronal Bourret : XML Namespaces FAQ
"The need for XML namespaces and the basic idea
that a two-part naming system (or something similar) is needed is not
controversial. However, the design of XML namespaces -- that is, the way
XML namespaces are declared and used in an XML document, as well the
confusion discussed in "Namespace Myths Exploded" -- has, at times, been
very controversial. (If you want to see just how controversial, go to the
archives of the XML-DEV mailing list and search on the word "namespace".)
Although XML namespaces still have some very vocal detractors, most
people have accepted and are using them. Furthermore, most new XML tools
and technologies use them, a state of affairs that is only likely to
increase."
Bill Humphries : URLs URLs URLs
"Remember people coming to your site want to use
an interface they are familiar with, and URIs are part of your
interface." Guilty. via
qube corner
Last night, I went down to the Jazz Fest
with someone from the States. As we entered the
festival area we saw a guy getting his bag patted down. I commented that
there was no free beer here, only four dollar
piss-water in plastic cups
. My friend looked at me and said: "Beer? I thought they were checking
for guns." In other news, we caught the tail end of
Alex
Pangman
's set and discovered that
Yeska
are doing outdoor shows on the 3rd and 4th. Yippeee! For those of you
unable to come to Montreal, the U of M student radio station has donated
their airwaves to something called
Radio-Jazz
Bell
"qui vous fera vibrer au son du Festival." (real evil g2) I feel obliged
to mention that the Jazz Fest has a
website
but it is Shockwave nightmare that makes up for its lack of streaming
feeds and webcams with popup windows. You've been warned.
O'Reilly Beta Chapter : The Camel Book v3.0
Michel Lacombe
"La révolte contre la mort est quelque chose
d'absurde. Mais on a besoin de toi. T'es de ceux qui donnent un sens à
notre nouvelle société québécoise. Certains disent que le XXIe siècle
n'est pas commencé. Ils n'ont pas pensé à toi."
Shut the fuck up bullets
NY Times : You've Got Inappropriate Mail
Some of the most spurious arguments I've heard in
a long time. There are plenty of ways to secure a mail server and limit
the traffic on a network without resorting to spying on [your] employees.
Everything looks like a nail when you've got a hammer, right?
SANS : Consensus Roadmap for Defeating Distributed Denial of
Service Attacks
Jesse Helms on the United Nations
Jeffrey Zeldman : The Day the Browser Died 2, The
Resurrection?
"Say that pizza is tasty, that Doctor Pepper is
refreshing, that salad is healthy, and that a misty day can be romantic
and lovely. Say that each of these things, on its own, brings joy to
life. Now imagine that if you eat pizza and salad on a misty day, and
wash it down with a glass of Doctor Pepper, you will die." These are
things I wonder about, every morning, as I sit down to face the
Information Revolution.
Oh, how the mighty will fall
"Understanding women is harder than figuring out
the hardest computer game, harder even than setting up a secure
200-client network running *BSD. But women can offer more satisfaction
than even an overclocked, dual-Celeron workstation, so learning how to
deal with them is worth the extra effort." Un-fucking-believable. Well
intentioned joke, or not, this is still just puerile and asinine, and
ultimately mean-spirited, nonsense.
Michael Kimmelman : The Importance of Matthew Barney
"Matthew hates anything obvious," Chelsea
Romersa, his assistant, says. "Like the color red. The crew's job is to
buy the scrims for the windows, to get the materials, to build the sets,
and often we have to ask practical questions, but we never ask direct
questions about content. By osmosis, you begin to make connections
yourself, which is the real point of art anyway, don't you think?"
Technologies to the People Foundation
"is a non-profit-making organization that
provides the destitute with access to the new technologies and thus
facilitates their entry to the information society."
Forget the sailors
they've managed for centuries without a GPS, it's
the
citizens
of Tokyo
we need to be worried about.
Daniel Pinchbeck on the Venice Biennale
I'm pretty sure this is why I spend most of my
time writing Perl code these days. Ugh.
I had no idea that
It's Bastille Day
netomat
"netomat is a meta-browser that engages a
different Internet - an Internet that is an intelligent application and
not simply a large database of static files. netomat dialogues with the
net to retrieve information that is unmediated and independent in form.
With netomat, the user has a dialogue with the Internet. You can ask the
net a question using natural language. netomat responds by flowing text,
images and audio from the net to your screen. You respond or ask further
questions or write keywords and the flow of data to your desktop is
altered in response. The data is not constrained by a web page or site
but free floating and independent. netomat can retrieve almost all types
of data that resides on the Internet: jpegs, gifs, aiff, wav, html, xml
and plain text. netomat dialogues with you as well. It memorizes your
session to further enable your search and exploration of the Internet."
Available for download at 17:00 EST. Requires Java.
The Rant-Line
at the Montreal Mirror makes the threads at
slashdot look a scholar's debate.
wtf?
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dude, where's my car
This document uses
CSS
kung-fu and a small amount of JavaScript for rendering its
contents. Efforts have been made to separate the form from the
content so if you are viewing this in a text-based browser it
shouldn't be an issue.
On the other hand it may look funny if you are viewing it in a
browser with incomplete
CSS
and/or JavaScript implementations. Internet Explorer 6 comes to
mind.
It's not that I don't love you. However, my time is limited and
I no longer feel very good about spending it working around any one
browser's inconsistencies with little, or no, confidence that they
will ever be fixed or otherwise made more inconsistent at some
later date.
On the other hand, if something is down-right
unreadable
please let me know and I will endeavour to fix it.
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yes, we have no bananas
This page may not validate. It's not that I don't care, it's
just that I'm not aware of it yet. Part of the reason that I
rewrote the entire back-end for managing this site is that the old
stuff made it too easy for these kinds of mistakes to slip through
the cracks.
See also :
W3C::LogValidator.pm
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it's the software, stupid
Use the source, Luke.