posts brought to you by the category “dhtml”
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.
Me : ASCOPE::Apache::XSLT.pm 0.3
To hear the story told the next day I pulled up casually alongside
the hot tub,
I will wade in to the Unformedness Wellness of Aggregators debate
only long enough to offer the following :
Nicholas Clark : When Perl is not quite fast enough
Morbus Iff : "This is a collection of DocBook Lite extensions to
BBEdit 7.x"
Snow butt
Me : WebService::weblogUpdates.pm 0.33
inkdroid : "[T]he Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
is an protocol (XML over HTTP) for sharing and
harvesting metadata. The protocol is actually quite elegant, and provides
a framework for making all sorts of metadata formats available.
Essentially it allows organizations to share their metadata in such a way
that it can be harvested periodically by service providers. Kind of like
RSS syndication, but for metadata."
On a related note, with all the fuss that everyone makes about the
editing of weblog posts
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : fulminate
Fulminate \Ful"mi*nate\, n. [Cf. P. fulminate. See
{Fulminate}, v. i.] (Chem.) (a) A salt of fulminic acid. See under
{Fulminic}. (b) A fulminating powder. {Fulminate of gold}, an explosive
compound of gold; -- called also {fulminating gold}, and {aurum
fulminans}.
web1913
fulminate n : a salt or ester of fulminic acid v 1:
criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut
Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies" [syn: {rail}]
2: come on suddenly and intensely; "the disease fulminated" 3: cause to
explode violently and with loud noise
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : torrible
mixture of terrible and horrible
ex. I feel so torrible today
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is :
ratiocination
Ratiocination \Ra`ti*oc"i*na"tion\, n. [L. ratiocinatio:
cf. F. ratiocination.] The process of reasoning, or deducing
conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning.
web1913
ratiocination n : logical and methodical reasoning
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : aspersion
Aspersion \As*per"sion\, n. [L. aspersio, fr. aspergere:
cf. F. aspersion.] 1. A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal
sense. Behold an immersion, not and aspersion. --Jer. Taylor. 2. The
spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation,
like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny. Every candid
critic would be ashamed to cast wholesale aspersions on the entire body
of professional teachers. --Grote. Who would by base aspersions blot
thy virtue. --Dryden.
web1913
aspersion n 1: a disparaging remark [syn: {slur}] 2: the
act of defaming [syn: {calumny}, {slander}, {defamation}] 3: the act of
sprinkling water in baptism (rare) [syn: {sprinkling}]
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : ineluctable
Ineluctable \In`e*luc"ta*ble\, a. [L. ineluctabilis; pref.
in- not + eluctabilis to be surmounted, fr. eluctari to struggle out
of, to surmount: cf. F. in['e]luctable. See {Eluctate}.] Not to be
overcome by struggling; irresistible; inevitable. --Bp. Pearson. The
ineluctable conditions of matter. --Hamerton.
web1913
ineluctable adj : impossible to avoid or evade:"inescapable
conclusion"; "an ineluctable destiny"; "an unavoidable accident" [syn:
{inescapable}, {unavoidable}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : ubba
dubba
An idiot, a moron or fool.
ex. You were such an ubba dubba the time you forgot to
tie down the Christmas tree to the roof of our car.
http://sax.perl.org
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : somnolent
Somnolent \Som"no*lent\, a. [F. somnolent, L. somnolentus,
from somnus sleep, akin to Gr. ?, Skr. svapna sleep, dream, svap to
sleep, Icel. sofa, AS. swefn sleep. Cf. {Hypnotic}, {Somnambulism},
{Soporific}.] Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep. -- {Som"no*lent*ly},
adv. He had no eye for such phenomens, because he had a somnolent want
of interest in them. --De Quincey.
web1913
somnolent adj : inclined to or marked by drowsiness;
"slumberous (or slumbrous) eyes"; "`slumbery' is archaic"; "the sound
had a a somnolent effect" [syn: {slumberous}, {slumbery}, {slumbrous}]
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Perlmonks : SOAP::Lite and Security
"But the fundamental problem is that SOAP is a
poorly designed protocol designed with no eye to security, and built
largely for the convenience offered because most firewalls will let
through http traffic. This was said pointed out a long time ago by Bruce
Schneier, but it is amazing how many people have missed the basic point.
The point is that firewalls are retroactive protection for security
mistakes in applications. If applications seek new ways around firewalls
but continue to make the same basic mistakes then you are guaranteed to
get into a situation where firewalls need to retroactively filter a more
complicated protocol."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
hydroplegic
ex. I ran into Steve yesterday and tried to have a
conversation, but he's turned into a hydroplegic.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
predonistic
ex. The cheerleader walked by her "old crowd" of friends,
sticking her nose up with a predonistic flare as she wrapped her arm
around her new boyfriend. OR The pop star ignored the little girl
asking for an autograph, predonistically waving her away.
submitted by Francesca
Did Aaron think anything about that?
Me : render-changes-xml.js
Robert Scoble : "We must change their memes. How do we do
that?
I guess with two ways. First, we kill their women
and children. Why? Well, these are future hosts of their memes. And, we
must get their memes to understand that if we get attacked, we will make
their other meme holders pay and pay big. ... They are killing my memes.
Until they stop killing my memes, and start talking on the Internet with
me, my memes will want to wack them, and wack them hard."
Apparently, the B.C. CRAP and Marijuana parties are going to break
bread
in an effort
to liberate British Columbia from a socialist regime
. ... "Marijuana is a symbol for all of us who are oppressed by state
control. We're reminding Alliance members that we're not a big jump for
you, and a lot of people are responding positively."
Business Week : "[S]cientists hope to create plants containing tiny
biochip control devices
in their cells capable of receiving and
transmitting signals to a station millions of miles away on Earth. On
command, these Martian wheat stalks or lunar potatoes would be able to
undergo genetic modification."
John Roth : "Whenever Canada loses one of its talented people there
should be an exit interview.
We should find out why our talent leaves and what
needs to be done. If exit interviews work for industry, they can also
work for a country. I don't think Ottawa fully realizes the extent to
which Canada's talent is under attack. The fact is we have already lost
too many of Canada's brightest across many industry sectors, especially
high-tech. We have suffered the loss of almost an entire generation.
We'll miss their creativity, their leadership, the job opportunities
their triumphs would have created for countless other Canadians, and the
wealth they could have created for other Canadians."
Peter Steiner : "I feel a little like the person
(whoever it is) who invented the smiley face. ...
Isn't that horrifying — to think that's the thing I'll be
remembered for?"
Ideas considers "hacktivism" this evening
"The threat: If Indonesia failed to abide by the
East Timor referendum, government communications, bank accounts and the
military would be disrupted by a worldwide team of computer hackers. Are
huge institutions really vulnerable?"
0205
GMT
(real evil g2)
Cool Uses for Perl : 250 badges in 10 minutes!
But seriously folks
since the talk has turned to art, I'd like to
digress for a moment. I went to art school for a whole host of reasons to
dull to discuss here. I got two degrees; the first was my BFA, the second
was teaching myself the web. I did the latter for some very pragmatic
reasons -- if you're going to say stupid things like "I want to be a
studio artists" you should have something to fall back on -- and because
computers and The Network looked like they had matured beyond the
gee-whiz factor. Surely, I thought, there must be something more
interesting "out here" than just crunching credit cards.
More art, less words!
This man is a genius. For anyone who ever ran
Norton
Utilities just to watch Speed Disk make those pretty pictures of their
(de) fragmented hard drives. (I'm not the only one, am I?) see also :
We need more of those
.
Shift on the rise and fall of booth bunnies
The Bambiraptor?
Messages from the past to the future
I was going to spend the weekend
working on the never-ending upgrade of my own
weblog software. I think, instead, I'm going to turn my computer off and
sit around reading and scratching my ass. It's getting just plain weird
out here or, as the one who knows all says : "There are very few
despondent weblogs, though I bet there are more than a few despondent
webloggers."
