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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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Or “All your Emacs are belong to us”

  Montréal, December 2003

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Separated at birth : Aaron Startup Cope

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It's not that anything Maciej has said is wrong

so much as it misses the fact that because Canada is so big, we have a slightly different notion of where the "country" begins. Maciej is roughly seven or eight hours, by car, from the U.S. border and he still hasn't even hit the 49th parallel. I don't have the exact numbers, but probably 90+ percent of the country lives South of that line. If you look at a map you will see that Canada runs off at the mouth for a considerable distance North of it. Just to put things in some perspective, Poland is smaller than France (or looks it) and the province of Québec, alone, is seven times the size of France. There were real serious plans on the books during the 80's to flood about one seventh of the province's land mass (as part of the James Bay 2 hydro-electric project) which in a European context would make for a lot of soggy cheese. I mention that to demonstrate that Canadians have a radically different, and privileged, sense of space not shared by anyone else on the planet, except maybe the Russians. Anyway, all that stuff up there, covered in ice ten months of the year and black flies the other two: that is the " country ".

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If you look at it in a browser that automagically scales large images

it sort of looks like the profile of the Starship Enterprise. Still trying to understand what this gives me that namespaces + XPath doesn't... warning: 4577 x 929 px

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FreePAN, The Free Programming Archive Network

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I know there is a pretty serious spelling mistake in that last post

and that one would be hard pressed to search for underground water or minerals using a chi-chi bathroom faucet. I'm leaving it there because it serves as a clever segway to mention that, last night, I managed to pick up the one pound of butter covered in black mold . Somewhere, some clever grad student actually knows how long it takes for refrigerated butter to grow mold...

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Mark Fowler : "It's all about my latest crazy crazy idea which is XML::Filter::TT."

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The Animal Internet-o-pedia

Never mind this thing you call "weblog", where do I get myself an Internet-o-pedia? via danny ayers

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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.

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The first two points on this author's wishlist will never happen

because they have nothing to do Movable Type, really. They are problems (translation: this is actually a feature, not a bug) that have plagued multi-user environments from day one.

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The Many Date and Times of Perl

Efforts in the past to herd all the existing module authors towards a common API have failed, so rather than try that again, I decided to just write even more datetime code. As we all know, the best way to put out a fire is to pour copious amounts of gasoline on it. In order to make my project sound cool, I'm calling it the "Perl DateTime Suite", which sounds much better than "more date and time modules".

I am so with the Idea of RDF but it's never going to happen, certainly not the way people who wax poetic about it seem to imagine. RDF strikes me as the datetime problem writ large, an increasingly pendantic debate to define what the meaning of is is. By way of example, a careful reader will note that during the discussion of Daylight Savings Time in article cited no mention is made of the fact that Saskatchewan doesn't bother with the practice at all; most farmers are bit too busy for that kind of thing and who can blame them? So fine, go ahead and add another ruleset your RDF thingy but sooner or later all RDF thingies are just going to be little more than a collection of monster if/else statements (because the farmers aren't going adopt DST just to make your whiz-bang network enable font of knowledge happy. In every essay I've seen about RDF, the author say something to the effect of why is something so simple, so hard for people to understand? The answer is pretty straightforward : because, for good or ill, people are hell-bent on making it difficult. Why, if RDF is so simple, does it have all this baggage? What the hell is a Class and why do I need to care? Why, if all this nonsense, is meant for machines do people push as something that humans should feel all warm and fuzzt about? RDF is a perfectly good framework for exchanging data and describing things. Period. But please stop thinking that it is a suitable vehicle for condensing all of human experience and automating human interaction. see also : strikes me as more event-like than freebusy-like and banque de déppanage linguistique which, with a name like that, ought to tell you something.

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La la la, I can't hear you

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Rodrigo Loyola : Subway...

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Bill Stilwell : mt.el




;; This packages enables you to create new posts and edit old posts
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Scott Andrew LePera : Using the Mozilla SOAP API

Cool, docs for humans!

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PHP-Pal Shopping System

"provides a free and open source shopping cart system for users of the PayPal Online Store solution for small Web-based businesses."

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

"a little bit of something, as in food or drink"
ex. "How big of a piece of cake do you want?" "Just a dibble."
see also : dibble dict-ified

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

short for Timberland boots (highly thought of in the hip-hop/rap community)
ex. Yo . . .B! Those tims are off the hook!

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"However, you may download material from The New York Times

on the Web (one machine readable copy and one print copy per page) for your personal, noncommercial use only." What's interesting about this is that the Times marks up the content of their webpages with handy-dandy <nyt_foobar> tags (yay for content management systems!) Which, now that I think about it, ultimately begs the question of why I've been using HTML::Parser and not a XSL stylesheet, all this time. Oh, the duh-ness -- it hurts! ... update : Oh my god, it's like I've become duh-ness given form : duh ... Alas, maybe I'll post the code later today. Unfortunately bug fixes and such have made it on to my "step away from the computer" list, but it works... see also : Apache::SOAP::NYTimesParser.pm (this might be out of sync with the current formatting) and A bit of unsolicited advice to all those who are keen on billing for online content .

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W3C : IsaViz

IsaViz is a visual environment for browsing and authoring RDF models represented as graphs.

mmmmm....weblogging with boxes and arrows.

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

When a person tries to speak, but burps instead.
ex. The crowd was amused by her spurp.

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Radio Crankypants #4 : <%mirrorproject.Random ()%>

With a little help from Dave .

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The Ping Indentity Bill of Rights and Principles

"assumes that someday, everything that communicates electronically will have a globally unique digital identity. This Bill of Rights captures the fundamental rights and privileges that should be enjoyed by each digital identity, and the principles by which these identities are created and shared."

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MZSanford : Win32::InternetExplorer::Window.pm

"is for the creation of floating InternetExplorer windows with no tool bars. Also included is the control of that window. As i get more work done, another name space will be added to allow embedding of IE rendering windows within Win32::GUI windows, i hope."

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Roger Mellie : Roger's Profanisaurus

via metafilter

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What does Aaron think about it, today?

A lot of tweaks on the backend of the categories as rss as html framework. The RSS file ( warning : namespace hell ) contains all the category information for a given post. The html displays links to related categories in much the same way the daily pages do. There is also a link to the RSS file on each category page. Next up, is adding all these changes to the standard syndication files, as well as setting up an RSS widget for individually archived posts...

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Me : What has Aaron been thinking about, recently?

Over lunch, I spent a little time and expanded on yesterday's categories as rss framework . Now, you can view the aforementioned RSS file rendered as XHTML. The URL scheme is as follows : http://aaronland .info /weblog/category/(NAME|ID)/recent . So far, formatting consists of a slightly modified version of Eric van der Vlist's 10-to-xhtml.xsl stylesheet. This is unlikely to change in the near-term and is part of larger aaronland migration issues that have dragging around for most of last year. Alas.

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FreeBSD Diary : "NetSaint is a network monitor.

You can use it to keep close tabs on your routers, printers, computers, and services. NetSaint can watch monitor various services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP) to make sure they keep running. It can ping boxes to make sure they are still up. ... If also allows you to create your own plugins if you so wish."

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

| source : web1913 | Privation \Pri*va"tion\, n. [L. privatio: cf. F. privation. See {Private}.] 1. The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation. --Bacon. 2. The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations. 3. The condition of being absent; absence; negation. Evil will be known by consequence, as being only a privation, or absence, of good. --South. Privation mere of light and absent day. --Milton. | source : wn | privation n 1: a state of extreme poverty [syn: {want}, {deprivation}] 2: act of depriving [syn: {deprivation}]

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

| source : web1913 | Oblivious \Ob*liv"i*ous\, a. [L. obliviosus: cf.F. oblivieux.] 1. Promoting oblivion; causing forgetfulness. ``The oblivious pool.'' --Milton. She lay in deep, oblivious slumber. --Longfellow. 2. Evincing oblivion; forgetful. Through are both weak in body and oblivious. --Latimer. -- {Obliv"i*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Ob*liv"i*ous*ness}, n. --Foxe. | source : wn | oblivious adj 1: (followed by `to' or `of') lacking conscious awareness of; "oblivious of the mounting pressures for political reform"; "oblivious to the risks she ran"; "not unmindful of the heavy responsibility" [syn: {oblivious(p)}, {unmindful(p)}] 2: failing to keep in mind; "forgetful of her responsibilities"; "oblivious old age" [syn: {forgetful}]

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

| source : web1913 | Egress \E"gress\, n. [L. egressus, fr. egredi to go out; e out + gradi to go. See {Grade}.] 1. The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure. Embarred from all egress and regress. --Holland. Gates of burning adamant, Barred over us, prohibit all egress. --Milton. 2. (Astron.) The passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit. | source : web1913 | Egress \E*gress"\, v. i. To go out; to depart; to leave. | source : wn | egress n 1: the becoming visible; "not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins" [syn: {emergence}, {issue}] 2: the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent [syn: {egression}, {emergence}] 3: (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse [syn: {emersion}]

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Jerome Alet : The Zope Shell

"is a GPLed Python Script which makes some of the most commonly used unix shell commands available from within Zope, to manage the ZODB contents. ... As for the 0.001 version which is attached to this message, the following commands are recognized: cd, cp, mv, rm, ls."

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The Recipe Markup Language

and the needs of the world of food .

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