posts brought to you by the category “databases”
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.
Mélanie Baillairgé : Calvin
Does anyone want to port this 'zooming photo album generator' to
use SVG
Nicholas Kristof : A Reader's Guide to the War
But since the Bush administration was willing to bring in a
Hollywood producer to design a $250,000 set for the Central Command
briefings, it might at least remind officials that we are not
invading Eye-rack, but Ee-rack.
Ulf Jasper : "Here's a package for importing simple icalendar
events into Emacs diary."
Please note that this is a pre-alpha snapshot trial demo test
version. It should work correctly on ordinary, i.e. non-recurring,
events.
Amphetathoughts #1: Use the %ENV, Luke.
Me : Eatdrinkfeelgood 1.1 [X]HTML examples
Your friendly, but backwards, neighbour
Subject: the unbearable twingularity of it all
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 11:06:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Aaron Straup Cope
To: Ben Hammersley
Subject: the unbearable twingularity of it all
>From the thinking out loud department :
You might be able to rig something using Mail::Audit and the BBDB (written
by Mr. Intertwingle himself.) All of which will inevitably necessitate
some sort of intersecting of the BBDB and FOAF...
http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
http://search.cpan.org/author/LAXEN/BBDB-1.34/
http://search.cpan.org/author/SIMON/Mail-Audit-2.1/Audit.pm
See also :
http://aaronland.info/weblog/category/email/recent
http://aaronland.info/weblog/archive/4058
# This part is easy and implemented in a gazillion different
# ways already. I include it only for thoroughness :
http://perl.aaronland.net/rss/
Cheers,
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : fettle
Fettle \Fet"tle\, n. The act of fettling. [Prov. Eng.]
--Wright. {In fine fettle}, in good spirits.
web1913
fettle n : a state of fitness and good health; "in fine
fettle"
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
whangdepootenawah
In the Ojibwa tongue, "disaster." An affliction that
strikes hard when no one expects it.
ex. Whangdepootenawah.
see also :
whangdepootenawah dict-ified
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : cynosure
Cynosure \Cy"no*sure\ (s?"n?-sh?r or s?n"?-sh?r; 277), n.
[L. Cynosura theconstellation Cynosure, Gr. ????? dog's tail, the
constellation Cynosure; ????, ????, dog + ???? tail. See{Cynic}.] 1.
The constellation of the Lesser Bear, to which, as containing the polar
star, the eyes of mariners and travelers were often directed. 2. That
which serves to direct. --Southey. 3. Anything to which attention is
strongly turned; a center of attraction. Where perhaps some beauty
lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes. --Milton.
web1913
cynosure n : something that strongly attracts attention (as
the north star attracts mariners); "let faith be your cynosure to walk
by"
wn
Mike Boone : "We loved Ronaldo scoring two goal,
the second a classic. We love Brazil's deadly
striker so much that we might even get our hair cut that way - if we were
dead."
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that replacing
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : demagogue
Demagogue \Dem"a*gogue\ (?; 115), n. [Gr. dhmagwgo`s a
popular leader; commonly in a bad sense, a leader of the mob; dh^mos
the people + 'agwgo`s leading, fr. 'a`gein to lead; akin to E. act: cf.
F. d['e]magogue.] A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control
the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and
factious mob orator or political leader.
web1913
demagogue n : an orator who appeals to the passions and
prejudices of his audience [syn: {demagog}, {rabble-rouser}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fad-get
A person who is into all the latest fads.
ex. Look at the rich fad-get with his FUBU shirt and Doc
Martens!
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : insanal
The next step up from anally retentive is insanally
retentive, where one sees obsessive-compulsive behaviour sufficient
to cause actual brain damage.
ex. Josh's habit of individually vacuum-packing used
cigarette butts, and then filing them in a diary of cigarettes
smoked, was so insanally retentive it caused a brain embolism in
several of his flatmates.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
discaboobliated
Being flustered or confused.
ex. Having that beautiful girl come up and talk to me
left me all discaboobliated.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is agitprop
| source : wn | agitprop n : a person who
disseminates messages calculated to assist some cause or some government
[syn: {propagandist}]
Matt Sergeant : 50-second XPath Primer
Me : What is Aaron thinking about?
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is plaintive
| source : web1913 | Plaintive \Plain"tive\, a.
[F. plaintif. See {Plaintiff}, n.] 1. Repining; complaining; lamenting.
--Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. ``The
most plaintive ditty.'' --Landor. -- {Plain"tive*ly}, adv. --
{Plain"tive*ness}, n. | source : wn | plaintive adj : expressing sorrow
[syn: {mournful}]
Perlmonks : Restoring deleted files under Linux
We spoke of the intersection
Steve Mann : Computer Architectures For Personal Space
"I always found it strange why individuals so
willingly acquiesce to the mechanized invasions of privacy caused by
video surveillance, yet the same people become angered when overtly
photographed by an individual wielding a handheld camera. To resolve this
seemingly strange paradox, I have experimented with making myself into a
corporation, with its own body-worn video surveillance cameras, for the
protection of its body's property. What I have learned is that if I can
abandon (or appear to abandon) my autonomy, by becoming a corporation, I
have much greater freedom. In particular, I discovered that if I am bound
by external forces of policy and procedure (as is typical of a
corporation), I can be, in some ways, much more free."
Randal L. Schwartz : Developing a Perl Routine
"This doesn't sound like that difficult a task,
but some interesting subtleties arose as I was starting to solve it in my
head. So, I'm writing this column effectively in real time, as I would
consider each piece of the problem, to illustrate effective practices at
developing Perl routines."
Douglas Adams, 1952 - 2001
Dave Pawson : XSLT Questions and Answers
D.J. Adams : Net::Jabber::XMLRPC.pm
"The general idea is that you have an XMLRPC
server which has various method handlers to service the XMLRPC-based
calls, wrapped within a Jabber component (old name: transport) which is
connected to a Jabber server. You also have an XMLRPC client which
connects as a standard Jabber client to a Jabber server, and sends the
XMLRPC method call payload to the XMLRPC server, which processes the call
and sends back a response."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is potboiler
| source : web1913 | Potboiler \Pot"boil`er\, n.
A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic work, and esp. a
painting, done simply for money and the means of living. [Cant] | source
: wn | potboiler n : a literary composition of poor quality that was
written quickly to make money (to boil the pot)
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is galvanic
| source : web1913 | Galvanic \Gal*van"ic\, a.
[From Galvani, a professor of physiology at Bologna, on account of his
connection (about 1780) with the discovery of dynamical or current
electricity: cf. F. galvanique.] Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the
phenomena of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents.
{Galvanic battery} (Elec.), an apparatus for generating electrical
currents by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; -- now
usually called {voltaic battery}. See {Battery}. {Galvanic} {circuit or
circle}. (Elec.) See under {Circuit}. {Galvanic pile} (Elec.), the
voltaic pile. See under {Voltaic}. | source : wn | galvanic adj 1:
(electricity) pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical
action; "a galvanic cell"; "a voltaic (or galvanic) couple" [syn:
{voltaic}] 2: affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling; "gave
an electric reading of the play"; "the new leader had a galvanic effect
on morale" [syn: {electric}, {galvanizing}]
Marie-Joelle Gros : Le «Gitoyen» contre le Web commercial
"Pour eux, la constitution d'un GIE «associatif»
est une étape supplémentaire dans l'édification d'un Web indépendant des
pressions économiques. «
On n'a rien contre le business, mais on défend une
autre idée: celle d'une appropriation du réseau par le public
, explique Laurent Chemla.
La liberté d'expression appartient à tous. Elle n'a
rien à voir avec une logique marchande.
»"
Evan Williams : "Talk about collaborative journalism.
It's easy to see why this is going to play a
bigger and bigger role in the future of news. Real people, giving reports
from the front lines, as they see it. Can't beat it!"
For those who don't already know today is the anniversary of the
shootings at l'École polytechnique in Montreal.
Eleven years ago Marc Lepine, deliberately
targeting women, shot his way in to a engineering class at the University
of Montreal. He ordered all the men out of the room and then opened fire
on the remaining students. Fourteen women were killed, and thirteen
others wounded, before Lepine killed himself.
Genevieve Bergeron, Helene Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara
Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Barbara Maria Klucznick
Widajewicz, Maryse Laganiere, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia
Pelletier, Michele Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie
Turcotte.
Scott Gardiner : To be distinct is a balancing act
"There are differences, of course: Quebeckers [
Why can't English people just say Quebecois? ] carried their culture from
France in the 17th century; Alberta borrowed its from Texas, circa 1950.
If Albertans cling more tightly to their Stetsons than do Québécois to
their pure laine toques, it's only because the latter have worn theirs
long enough to have reached a more comfortable fit. And though each may
prefer to focus on the qualities they see as being theirs alone, the rest
of us might wish to take a closer look at what these two cultures have in
common."
Evan Williams estimates that there are currently
