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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.

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Meanwhile, Dubya::BarCodeScan... I mean ::Blogger confuses his weblog with Free/Busy calendar information.

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Jo Walsh : RDF::Simple.pm

This parser is a transliteration of Sean B Palmer's python RDF/XML parser .

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Douglas McLennan : "It's not particularly in their interest to cut us off. I can be their biggest deliverer of traffic."

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Meanwhile, Nat Torkington has turned iTunes into Napster.

I'm not releasing the source, though, until I talk with Tim O'Reilly and Apple and figure out whether I'll be getting my arse sued off ...

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<BlandFish rdf:ID="Scrod" />

Other winners from this inspriring document include <OtherTomatoBasedFoodCourse> and <CheeseNutsDessert> (cheese nuts dessert?) This is a joke, right? Someone, please tell me we're not going to try and teach computers that the characteristics that make a wine "sweet" are the same as those that make, say, ice cream sweet. BlandFish, indeed...

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Me : print-n-times.xsl 1.0

This stylesheet defines a single template for printing a string (n) times. An optional separator string may also be defined which, if present, will be printed (n -1) times.

This is the sound of the Earth not moving. There are no especially exciting bells and whistles, here. But, in the last couple weeks, it is a template that a friend asked about and one that I needed for a project of my own, so I figured it was worth making modular.

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Me : Net::ITE.pm 0.02

Next up is the post a notices the modules list for the CPAN. see also : docs

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Me : Net::Blogger.pm 0.8.4

Added support for the metaWeblog.newMediaObject method. As always, this will take a while to make its way on to the CPAN so you can grab a copy over here if you're feeling eager.

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Me : WebService::weblogUpdates.pm 0.33

Nothing to make the Earth move; hooks to use XMLRPC::Lite and POD fixes. Still managed to forget to include Test::More in Makefile.PL ...

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Quick! Someone lend Jim Holt a book, any book, by William Gibson.

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One reason it's been so quiet around here

is that I've been working a package for generating slideshows / galleries that do the right thing from a directory of nothing but image files. The package uses XML::Filter::XML_Directory_2XHTML and Image::Shoehorn to scale all the images per configuration data (e.g. thumb=>"75x50",small=>"25%" ) and generate all the necessary static HTML files, complete with next|prev links that know which size of the image you're looking at and links to the other scaled versions of the image. The design is purposefully simple since eventually the idea is to have the internals use XML::SAX::Machines so that you can filter the output of individual files to your hearts content. First though, I'd like to add support for XML::Filter::Sort on the front-end. Anyway, all the meta-data for an image is read from IPTC and EXIF tags. The former can be edited in Photoshop and the latter are written automagically by many cameras. Sadly, the Gimp supports neither and only allows for comments not exceeding 512 characters in length. Karl threatened to put together some sort of hairy, scary document based on the many emails we exchanged on the subject but I guess he has been busy enjoying the summer, and rightly so. Oh yeah, and the interface?



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Gallery->create(directory=>"/htdocs/images",



                url=>"mysite.com/images",



                static=>1, # Don't use Apache::Image::Shoehorn



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

A True Bob Dylan Fan! Every body knows this!
ex. All the BobCats gather round on rmd.music.bobdylan and share boots or thoughts or trivia or opinions but with a love you cannot find in any other reverent crowd!
see also : bobcat dict-ified

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fat coke

opposite of diet coke
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The Connection : Cork Wars

"The cork is under assault. Wineries are using plastic stoppers, and (yes, it’s true) screw-top caps on top-notch vino. The plastic lobby says cork’s no good, that it taints the wine. The cork lobby says it’s being slandered, that conscientious consumers will choose cork because it’s also environmentally-correct. No one’s quite ready to embrace the screw-top, but it’s coming. Is this really a conversation about what’s best for the wine lover, or what’s best for business?"

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"People literally will not cross the street to get coffee."

Which sort of says it all, don't you think?

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Yesterday : The second day of Not Winter

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

Obloquy \Ob"lo*quy\ ([o^]b"l[-o]*kw[y^]), n. [L. obloquium, fr. obloqui. See {Oblocutor}.] 1. Censorious speech; defamatory language; language that casts contempt on men or their actions; blame; reprehension. Shall names that made your city the glory of the earth be mentioned with obloquy and detraction? --Addison. 2. Cause of reproach; disgrace. [Obs.] --Shak. Syn: Reproach; odium; censure; contumely; gainsaying; reviling; calumny; slander; detraction. web1913
obloquy n 1: the state of disgrace resulting from public abuse [syn: {opprobrium}] 2: a malicious attack [syn: {defamation}, {calumny}, {traducement}, {hatchet job}] wn

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N.Y. Times : One night a waiter spotted a man putting one in his napkin.

"So what I did was, I put it on the bill," Ms. Daguin said. "And when they saw the bill, they decided to return the knife. That's how we dealt with it."

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

Short for "Don't Mess Yourself". Used when someone overreacts
ex. ""DMY, Rich. It was an accident.""

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Radio Crankypants #13-15

13) This would effectively turn RU into a desktop Blogger (only) application , complete with archives. 14) This is untested but... should import an entire Movable Type weblog in to Radio. 15) I was asked if I thought the MT hack, just mentioned, would work equally well for slurping a Blogger blog in the absence of a getAllPosts () method. The answer is :

No, it wouldn't. This is only a MT hack and it was a fluke involving auto-vivification of hash keys in Perl. The code was written to follow the spec.

The only way to get an entire Blogger blog using the API is fraught with danger; basically you have to get 20 recent posts (that's the upper limit), store them somewhere safe, delete them all from Blogger and start over again.

The process for importing into MT involves formatting the blog in a manner that lends itself to scraping and then you set your posts per page to something outrageous like 1000+

That said, the easiest way to import a Blogger blog into RU would be to format the templates as XML , set the page limit to <insert outrageous number> and rebuild your static files. Then you could slurp the file and parse it in Radio, saving everything to a table, like this :




local (server="yerhost.com")



local (path="/path/to/bigfile.xml")



xmlText = tcp.httpClient(server:server,path:path)







xmlBody = string.httpResultSplit(xmlText)







xml.compile(xmlBody,@workspace.bloggerData)




This approach is not only untested but will also require some additional processing on your part to finish populating the Radio CMS. That's the bad news. The good news is that your entire Blogger blog should now be a table in the object database and Radio/Frontier is rigged to the eyeballs for doing ODB stuff.

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : a-dollar-three-eighty

ex. Question: How much is it? Answer: A-dollar-three-eighty.
submitted by george Kelly

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

| source : web1913 | Foundling \Found"ling\, n. [OE. foundling, fundling; finden to find + -ling; cf. f["u]ndling, findling. See {Find}, v. t., and {-ling}.] A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. {Foundling hospital}, a hospital for foundlings. | source : wn | foundling n : a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown [syn: {abandoned infant}]

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N.Y. Times : "Last winter Louis Rastelli, a struggling Montreal publisher, found himself suddenly in need of a brand-new distribution method.

Canada’s major bookstore chain decided that stocking the literary zines and chapbooks that Rastelli publishes had become too much of a hassle, and he was increasingly unable to get his product into the hands of its intended audience. Rastelli’s solution: buy some surplus cigarette machines – the Canadian government had recently restricted them in restaurants, and so they were in plentiful supply – and retrofit them into coin-operated delivery devices for art, literature and music. The ‘‘Distroboto’’ was born." see also : The Book Drop and The Poetry Dispenser (thanks to ed and jessamyn , respectively)

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I'm hunting wabbits

via libjuice

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Simson Garfinkel : The Web's War on Your Privacy

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N.Y. Times : Interview with Stefan Fatsis,

author of "Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players." Warning : this guy is not only a bit annoying to listen to, but will also shatter any illusions you might have had about Scrabble being a nice, quiet game for word-nerds. see also : Confessions of a Scrabble Junkie . (real evil g2)

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Jish : "God dammit, I'm Canadian."

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Le Devoir : Internet donne un second souffle à l'espéranto

"L'anglais de base est facile, sa phonétique ne l'est pas. On entend très bien les accents des gens quand ils parlent anglais, pas en espéranto. Et ce n'est pas une langue neutre: elle est le symbole d'une identité, d'une culture, et elle marque une supériorité. Pensez-vous que vous discutez d'égal à égal dans un congrès international où se trouvent des Britanniques ou des Américains? L'anglais est la deuxième langue de tous les autres qui doivent, eux, faire des efforts, se concentrer. Avec l'espéranto, tout le monde est logé à la même enseigne: tous doivent l'apprendre. C'est la langue de l'égalité, qui ne nuit à aucune langue nationale."

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I confess I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to do

with the fact that SOAP::Lite.pm now supports the Jabber protocol but it sure is cool , all the same.

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Robin Berjon : The AxKit Has Been Drinking

"Cause XML's like a sumo wrestler / Pointy brackets french roast / And XSL's cool for widgets / With the params of a form post"

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I'm not sure that this interface is either simple or intuitive

but it certainly looks interesting

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Marc Lindahl's Audio Product for Zope

has prompted some interesting discussion on the merits of storing large widgets in the ZODB or on the filesystem.

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Stas Bekman : [T]aking mod_perl to the commercial world

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I would like to know who the jackass is

that decided brown, for anything except shoes and jackets, should be the "in" colour this year.

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