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see also : practice consumer sovereignty

  rue Duluth, Montréal, October 2003

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Dave Pawson : Emacs nxml-mode Q & A

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Like savage beasts, they roamed the land.

And if you think I am being prudish, just wait until you read the very last quote.

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We found Momo the morning after the Party.

He had spent two days crossing the valley and gone back to the old place only to discover that it was empty except for the four giant American boy-men lumbering around the tile floors.
Momo and Cuki, Tarano, August 2003

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Excerpted : I emptied my studio at 06H30 this morning




July 24, 2003



Montreal







<snip />







Anyway, there are two things I'll remember about my studio :







On the far fall, as you walk in, the previous occupant had fixed a towel



rack to the wall. Over that, she glued mirrored glass which had been cut



into individual letters to spell the word : F U C K E R







On the near wall, as you walk in, there was an old and short filing



cabinet that had been left behind. I didn't use it at first; I just



moved it out of the way a lot. Finally, I did a Big Cleanup and put the



cabinet near a table where I could easily reach things like tape and



pencils and erasers.







The first time I opened the top drawer to put something in it I found



myself staring at a single fridge-poetry magnet that had wedged itself



into the corner where the drawer's bottom met its face. It said : LUST







Like I said, the rest of the year was really just one false start after



another.



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TODO : Image::Shoehorn::Gallery.pm




# Use 

F:F:R:MMagic

 for finding images



#  doesn't always work (let when you 



#  deleted all those pending images who



#  didn't return image/* )







# Use 

F:F:Rule

->directory() for breadcrumbs







# Use 

XML::Filter::TT

 for templates



#  templates => { image => "image.tt",



#                 index => "index.tt" };



# pass the following args:



#  %iptc_info



#  %exif_info



#  next / previous image



#  next / previous directory



#  id



#  scales



#  static (huh?)



#  ?







# How to eval 
PhotoRDF in
EXIF comments

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# Fix railing slash on directories







# Use 
File::Rsync

 to reconcile old/new files



#  write to temp dir then call rsync --delete to remove



#  old or out of date files



#  this would allow 'directory' to be a



#  remote URI



This will be the famous templates for Karl release but don't hold your breath just yet...

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Elliotte Rusty Harold : Remember Mixed Content

What's really telling in this example is that the community promptly hacked their own uglier version of mixed content back into RSS, even though the original developers had tried to avoid it.

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Sean B. Palmer wrote a pure Python RDF parser

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I think I may start a website where you can enter the name/id of a big box supermarket

and have it return a list of smaller, mom-and-pop, food stores within a given radius. And to the RDF weenies, I know this is what RDF is supposed to be all about. In theory it should be trivial to set this up using stuff like the SMBmeta and GeoURL widgets. But fuct if I can figure out how .

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I feel an upgrade to Net::Google coming on...

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I think Karl would look rather fetching with a Magnum P.I. moustache, don't you?

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xSiteable

is a complete small-to-medium-size site development kit created in XSLT ... utilizing XTM for structure, binding and other cleverness.

Apparently, this is a Windows-only thing which doesn't really make a whole lot of sense but I haven't had a chance to look at the source yet. via a frog in the valley

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Me : ASCOPE::Apache::XSLT.pm 0.11

"This is not a replacement for AxKit" see also : docs and some background .

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : monomania

Monomania \Mon`o*ma"ni*a\, n. [Mono- + mania.] Derangement of the mind in regard of a single subject only; also, such a concentration of interest upon one particular subject or train of ideas to show mental derangement. Syn: Insanity; madness; alienation; aberration; derangement; mania. See {Insanity}. web1913
monomania n : a mania restricted to one thing or idea [syn: {possession}] wn

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : turpitude

Turpitude \Tur"pi*tude\, n. [L. turpitudo, from turpis foul, base.] Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions; shameful wickedness; depravity. --Shak. web1913
turpitude n : a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice: "the various turpitudes of modern society" [syn: {depravity}] wn

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : skrilla

"Money, Loot, Chedda."
ex. "whut up ninjaz,I gots the skrilla fo' rilla, I'll take care of the chizeck"

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : subterfuge

Subterfuge \Sub"ter*fuge\, n. [F., from LL. subterfugium, fr. L. subterfugere to flee secretly, to escape; subter under + fugere to flee. See {Fugitive}.] That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion. Affect not little shifts and subterfuges, to avoid the force of an argument. --I. Watts. By a miserable subterfuge, they hope to render this position safe by rendering it nugatory. --Burke. web1913
subterfuge n : something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity; "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind" [syn: {blind}] wn

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To my ever-lasting shame, I will admit to having read a book by Michael "rhymes with frighten" Creighton.

It was the virtual reality book; the one that got made into a movie. The only thing that's stayed with me was a passage where one character looks at another and says : "We have all this whiz-bang VR stuff and what do we do with it? We build virtual filing cabinets." Which is what I thought of when I read the following :
Why not take a web service that gives today's TV listings, for example, and combine it with a system that searches Google for details of the casts of each of the films. Then use another to order a pizza, to arrive just as the first advertising break starts? All from a few lines of simple computer code, and a bit of imagination, web services not only make this possible, they make it easy.
I'm not trying to diss Ben who by all appearances is a clever guy; nor do I disagree with the overall thrust of his article . But it says something, I think, that these are the first things we think about doing with all the cool-ness we suddenly have at our disposal. Is your life really that complete -- or empty -- that you need to worry about whether the pizza arrives during a commercial? Am I so lame that I can't figure out for myself that the milk has gone bad? And if you never leave the house anyway, who the fuck cares if your toast(er) tells you it's raining?

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The Connection : Whither the Digital Revolution?

Half an hour in to the program it could perhaps be best described as "watch as the West coast kids desperately try to revive the old-skool/new skool" thing. Which by any other name is old skool pretentiousness and tunnel-vision dressed up as happy happy joy joy. Someone please make Jaron Lanier shut the fuck up.

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I see that local ISP CAM is broadcasting Radio Free CBC

which is awfully nice of them. Now we just need to send Michel Bergeron to the Habs-Hurricanes series and get him to do the play-by-play on a cell phone and stream that over the Internet. I may go insane if I have to listen to John Davidson cluck like a chicken and talk about Josie's "magic feet" for the rest of the playoffs.

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Joe Johnston : "It's not the language designer's perview to make you code clearly.

Any claim a language makes to being inherently cleaner to code in (I'm looking at you, Java and python) is naive. I don't expect a java programmer to maintain a Perl program, just as I don't expect a Perl programmer to maintain a java program. In fact, that's why I'm not an editor for a Japanese magazine -- I have no facility for the language. Does that mean Japanese is inferior to English?"

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Randal L . Schwartz : Word of the day for PostgreSQL

"And to celebrate the successful installation of PostgreSQL on my system, I wanted to tackle a little project. While poking around for one, someone mentioned on the Perl IRC channel about having a ``word of the day'' program, and that inspired me to create one with PostgreSQL. ... If the dictionary is stale, the other readers see the dictionary instantaneously change from the old dictionary to the new dictionary, without blocking. Try that with MySQL." It just seemed topical ...

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John McCrae : In Flanders Fields




In Flanders fields the poppies blow



Between the crosses, row on row,



That mark our place; and in the sky



The larks, still bravely singing, fly



Scarce heard amid the guns below.







We are the Dead. Short days ago



We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,



Loved, and were loved, and now we lie



In Flanders fields.







Take up our quarrel with the foe:



To you from failing hands we throw



The torch; be yours to hold it high.



If ye break faith with us who die



We shall not sleep, though poppies grow



In Flanders fields.



 

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Tony Bowden : Radioactive::Decay.pm

"allows you to tie a scalar variable so that it will decay over time. For example, if you set a half-life of 30 seconds, then a variable which is set to 100 now will be 25 in a minute's time. We're sure there are all manner of useful applications for this, and hopefully someone will let us know what they are."

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is copse

| source : web1913 | Copse \Copse\, v. t. 1. To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc. --Halliwell. 2. To plant and preserve, as a copse. --Swift. | source : web1913 | Copse \Copse\, n. [Contr. from coppice.] A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See {Coppice}. Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled. --Goldsmith. | source : wn | copse n : a dense growth of bushes [syn: {brush}, {brushwood}, {coppice}, {thicket}]

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Jamie Zawinski : DNA Lounge Source Code

"Since we're running a rather high-tech club here, I've written a bunch of software to keep it all running. And we're giving it away: here it is! Perhaps you'll find it useful."

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Mark Jason Dominus : qrpff Explained

qrpff is more commonly known as "DeCSS in seven lines of Perl"

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Brian Aker : mod_mp3

"turns Apache into your basic RIAA hating, but every college student loving mp3 streaming server. It can play from a list of files, either straight through or randomly. It can also be used to cache mp3's into memory and have the server operate entirely from memory. Enjoy, groove, mp3s not included."

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Ovidiu Predescu : XSLT-process minor mode

"Have you ever developed XML applications using XSLT? If so you probably felt the need of viewing the result of applying the XSLT processor on the XML file using an XSLT sheet you have been working on right inside your (X)Emacs, without having to go to a terminal or to the Web browser. This minor mode allows you to do it!"

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DJ Adams : Fun with [ Net:: ] Jabber - Headline Delivery with RSS

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How to take a perfectly good idea

and ruin it. see also : How to take a perfectly good idea (the hardware, you pervert) and not market it.

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CBC : Jeanette Winterson and co. on books in the digital age

"[Publishers] just want to do text e-books in a very straightforward way. If I'm going on to electronic books I want them to be a bit more fun. I'd rather have an all-singing, all-dancing book."

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Overheard : "Michael Dukakis said that if Ralph Nader really did cost Al Gore the election,

he would go out and strangle him with his own hands which is interesting since he wasn't sure what he would do if someone raped and murdered his wife."

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Evan Williams estimates that there are currently

20, 000 active weblogs . What does this mean for the Idea of Weblog? Doubtless, it can only mean naked weblogging .

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So, I decided to do a Google search on my name too

and discovered that I am Dana Sculley's new love interest .

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